T. D. Jakes Quotes
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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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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You can't pick up a golf club if your thumb hurts.
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I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
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I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.
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I live out of my van, which gives me a first-hand appreciation for power and lighting. A few years ago, I rebuilt the interior of my van to include solar panels and a battery that powers LEDs for lighting and allows me to charge my phone and laptop.
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Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
