Boyd K. Packer Quotes
No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good.
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Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.
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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
