James Lankford Quotes
Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is behavior-related and preference-related, and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
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We in the Western world have grown to understand matter as imprisoned light, and light as liberated matter, yet this has had no influence on our spiritual thought. In practical terms it only led to the creation of the atom bomb.
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Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is behavior-related and preference-related, and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
