James Lankford Quotes
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.
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In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
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Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
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Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
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Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
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We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.
