T. D. Jakes Quotes
I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.
