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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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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Casting the body's vest aside,My soul into the boughs does glide.
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I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
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I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
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People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
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One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.
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I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.
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We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.
