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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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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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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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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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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I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.
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When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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It feels like every day or two, people on Twitter and the Internet are outraged about something.
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Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.
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We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.
