James Lankford Quotes
My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped.
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With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.
