James Lankford Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
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I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I wear a lot of things for fun. Sometimes I'll wear one item that is deliberately stupid because that will make the outfit cool.
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We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
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Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!
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My wife and I come from a Christian worldview.
