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 didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn't be opposed to doing that for a role one day.
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I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.
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Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.
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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.
