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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The world today is closer together and adherents of non-Christian religions live among us. In this situation, for the sake of understanding and peaceful coexistence, it is necessary to take a look over the fence of our own cultural context into the world of religions. In the process, we ascertain that compassion and beneficence are not restricted to our cultural context, but rather are universal human and primordial religious phenomena.
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People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.
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Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.
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I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?
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Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone.
