Dallin H. Oaks Quotes
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.
Dallin H. Oaks
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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.
Joel Edgerton
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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.
Alex Wolff
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I don't think it hurts to have rowing featured in a movie that's in the race for the best pictures. If it means someone might try the sport... then I'm really excited and happy about that.
Tyler Winklevoss
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As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.
Lewis Howes
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If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.
David Cassidy
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Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
Philippe Petit
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We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened
. . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
George Crumb
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When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.
Jim Gaffigan
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Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.
Aristotle
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
Albert Einstein
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Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.
Dallin H. Oaks
