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 truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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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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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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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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The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music.
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R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
