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.Boyd K. Packer
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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 -
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 -
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
Nate Silver -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.
Alice Englert -
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 -
I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother.
Yance Ford
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Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.
Brad Sherman -
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 -
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 -
Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.
Luc Dardenne -
I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
Dick Van Patten -
Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.
Wynonna Judd
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I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.
Chick Corea -
Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.
Christopher Golden -
I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.
Joni Ernst -
Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.
Katie Hafner -
I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.
Brian Tracy -
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