Boyd K. Packer Quotes
In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
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If your work isn't mission-driven or emotionally resonant to you, it will be very hard to maintain passion and focus over a long period of time, which is critical in entrepreneurship.
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The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to which the saints for thousands of years were blind? Or were our biblical views of women gradually eroded by the modern feminist movement that has infiltrated the Church.
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I can't imagine a more ideal life.
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Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.
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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
