Heber J. Grant Quotes

When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.'

Heber J. Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 22, 1856 - May 14, 1945

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I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

Jim Diamond

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We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.

Jerome Charyn

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Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone.

John Hurt

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We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toomer

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The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

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Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

Stanley Kubrick

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I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.

Minnie Pearl

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If I were to offer advice to any president of the United States, it would be this: do whatever you can do to keep America the most prosperous and free and powerful nation on earth.

Mitt Romney

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I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

David Shields

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As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.

Brad Garlinghouse

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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

Chuck Schumer

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I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

Alice Ripley

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