Jim Bakker Quotes
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.
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Often, just explicitly acknowledging how the other side must see things can help them open up to see your side and can help both parties achieve a fair and constructive outcome.
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We shall move about in people's rooms and say, 'Excuse me, we are the World Domination League. May we dominate you?' Then, if they say 'Get out,' of course we give up. Well, you have to give up if you're told to get out.
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There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
