Jim Bakker Quotes
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
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My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
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I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Revolutionaries are not infallible.
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Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
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I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.
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It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.
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Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.
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When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
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It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.
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I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.
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People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
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There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.
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I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.
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You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
