James Lankford Quotes

We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.

James Lankford

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• I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Always

• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  

  Ma Jian
  • World
  • Stage
  • China

• When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • God
  • Why
  • Want

• He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Play
  • Him
  • Phone

• Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Musical

• Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Books
  • Order

• When I taught, all my best students were women.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Best
  • Students

• If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Win
  • Need
  • Security

• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • God
  • Done
  • May

• In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • School
  • Theatre
  • Youth

• At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Science
  • Engineering

• Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Long
  • Career

• It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Movie
  • Today
  • Doing

• You cannot take all the chances you get.

  

  Marat Safin
  • You
  • Take
  • Chances

• Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • True
  • Society
  • Judge

• If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • War
  • College
  • Pygmalion

• Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Faults
  • Prize

• As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

  

  Bei Dao
  • Writer
  • Continue
  • Important Thing

• We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.

  

  James Lankford