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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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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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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Congress must seek and find answers when confronted with a situation that represents a possible betrayal of the public trust especially at a time when the people of the Gulf Region need every resource available to recover, ... ...I intend to exert my oversight power to determine how such flagrant abuse could happen and to ensure that Small Business Administration loans truly go to those who need them.
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I would sit in the back at church every Sunday trying to hide, and just when I thought I'd gotten through the service without her grandmother calling on me to sing 'His Eye Is On The Sparrow,' she'd always call me up...
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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I've always thought that science fiction films set in our world have always rung false.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
