James Lankford Quotes
I just don't believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.
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I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.
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Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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I just don't believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.
