James Lankford Quotes
Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.
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If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.
