Boyd K. Packer Quotes
If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?
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Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?
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I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
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I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.
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Don't believe everything you hear on the street.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
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There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
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Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.
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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
