Boyd K. Packer Quotes
Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
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I just read and read and read. ... I have always enjoyed reading.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
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Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.
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Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
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I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.
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His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory.
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I do, I do!. There were songs like Ryan Adams' song 'Come Pick Me Up' that was sort of part of the writing. The Patty Griffin song 'Long Ride Home' you just try and earn with your script. Most great songs are their own movie without your help. So you just try to earn them really.
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Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.
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The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed.
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Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.
