Boyd K. Packer Quotes
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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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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Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.
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I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.
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Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.
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As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.
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I got no hate in me.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
