Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
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If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
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When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.'. Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.
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I keep hearing this expletive thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.
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I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.
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Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.
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We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.
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We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
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Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
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We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.
