Dallin H. Oaks Quotes
Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I'm not graceful.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
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We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.
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Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
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Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.
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You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.
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I need my man to be my homie.
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Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
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I have a dog. He cuddles with me all night, so I don't really need a boyfriend.
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
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I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.
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If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?
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Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.
