Boyd K. Packer Quotes

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

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• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Man

• I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Special

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Support

• Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Communication

• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Song

• I work with the macro economy, which involves the major variables that measure the health of the whole economy, such as total consumption, investment, income, employment, and inflation.

  

  Clive Granger
  • Work
  • Health

• And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • Red
  • Blue

• Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

  

  Dinah Sheridan
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Framed

• In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • People
  • Culture

• I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

  

  Alice Englert
  • School

• Senator Badger did not call. During the whole of the last session of Congress, he did not call on me. He is a bitter partisan and is no doubt sensible that during the presidential canvass of 1844, he did me gross injustice.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Doubt
  • Bitter
  • Presidential

• I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother.

  

  Yance Ford
  • Brother

• Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.

  

  Brad Sherman
  • Important

• New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Perfect

• I can't really say I miss my toes.

  

  Amy Purdy

• There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Good
  • High
  • Today

• An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Good
  • Action
  • Consequences

• And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.

  

  Elizabeth Bowen
  • World
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Good
  • Art
  • Together

• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Food
  • Community

• Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Value
  • Choices