James Lankford Quotes
The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I love doing standup, but I love watching it more. Watching people like Michelle Buteau or Baron Vaughn get up and do their thing - that is what comedy can be like.
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Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.
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Faced with problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility: escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. But today, I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.
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For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived.
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Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
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The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.
