T. D. Jakes Quotes
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.
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I'm still kind of nerdy about video games, but I've had to take a little bit of a step back. I was really not getting a lot of things done in life because I was playing so much Destiny. I loved it, but I've gotta prioritize.
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It shows there is serious intent on the part of energy companies like SSE to try to get not only the newer technologies like wind well established but also the very new technologies out of the laboratory and on the ground, generating power.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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I'm an American TV show buff. I can watch them nonstop for days.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
