Boyd K. Packer Quotes
The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
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I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.
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I am proud that everybody is knowing me on the streets and airplanes and airports.
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I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.
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You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
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Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.
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Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
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The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
