Boyd K. Packer Quotes
If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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More women need to stick together.
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Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.
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I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.
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In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.
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You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.
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For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
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Slime is the sticky essence of a gastropod’s soul, the medium for everything in its life: locomotion, defense, healing, courting, mating, and egg protection. Nearly one-third of my snail’s daily energy went into slime production. And rather than making a single batch of “all-purpose” slime, my snail had a species-specific recipe for each of these needs and for different parts of its body. It could adjust the ingredients, just as a good cook would, to meet a particular occasion. And in a catastrophic accident in which a snail is squashed, it can release a flood of lifesaving, medicinal mucus packed with antioxidants and regenerative properties.
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I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.
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I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.
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If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.
