James Lankford Quotes
Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I was raised Catholic.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.
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I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
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I love BET and I love the fans.
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Only the insecure strive for security.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.
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If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
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I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.
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I agree with that in principle. Where would you stick the knife in?
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Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone.
