Dallin H. Oaks Quotes
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
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I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
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The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.
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As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.
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We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.
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My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.
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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
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Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.
