Boyd K. Packer Quotes
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

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Funny is an attitude.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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I like to play with tropes.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
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Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy.
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Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.