James Lankford Quotes
Broken families not only affect the people involved, but they have an impact on public policy decisions in Washington, D.C., and state capitols around the nation.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
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From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever.
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I probably do 10 to 12 Snapchats a day. Spending time with my family or my chef, my workouts, my outfits, or any events I'm attending. Playing music in the car is a big one for me. Dancing sometimes. Or asking people, 'How's business?'
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I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.
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The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.
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Broken families not only affect the people involved, but they have an impact on public policy decisions in Washington, D.C., and state capitols around the nation.
