T. D. Jakes Quotes
I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
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In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
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My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.
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The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.
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Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.
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I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.
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I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
