T. D. Jakes Quotes

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

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I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
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I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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I would describe my personal style as eclectic.
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I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.
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I have faith in my imperfections!
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
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The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.
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We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.
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I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.
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People who have a higher EQ (Emotional Quotient) lead more successful professional and personal lives, are healthier, and even live longer.
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.