James E. Faust Quotes

I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.

James E. Faust

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 31, 1920 - August 10, 2007

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I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

Joe Carnahan

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Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.

Jen Kirkman

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I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

Robin Williams

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I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

Michael Weatherly

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Our ability to create that one-on-one engagement with a customer is a point of differentiation and a strategic advantage for us.

Mindy Grossman

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Jean Baudrillard

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That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.

Janis Karpinski

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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

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When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

Demetri Martin

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If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

Donald Miller

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I work out every day. I still feel fit and energetic. In a way, I'm healthier now that I'm pregnant.

Chrissy Teigen

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Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.

Chris Sacca

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