Boyd K. Packer Quotes
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
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The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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It would be childish to think that the Stalin bureaucracy can be removed by means of a Party or Soviet Congress. Normal, constitutional means are no longer available for the removal of the ruling clique ... They can be compelled to hand over power to the Proletarian vanguard only by FORCE.
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
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We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.
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When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don't wear makeup, you hear things like, 'Oh wow, you look tired,' or, 'You're so brave for not wearing makeup!'
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A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
