T. D. Jakes Quotes

I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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I painted a painting called 'Milk River' in 1963 Cows don't give milk if they don't have grass and water Tremendous meaning of that is that painters can't give anything to the observer. People get what they need from a painting. The painter need not die because of responsibility. When you have inspiration and represent inspirationThe observer makes the painting.
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I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly
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I get a bit insecure if I feel like there's too much makeup on my face or if I feel like I'm cakey.
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One has to act with respect, just as with any sovereign government
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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
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I've been fortunate in that I've been able to have that balance as an actress to be able to do the wild, fun action movies and also be allowed to do the dramas. Hopefully, if I'm able to keep that balance, I'd love to always try to do both.
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The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
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Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.
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Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
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I was not concerned. In the past, we would have folded.
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Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.
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Love is just a hole in the wall.
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Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
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Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.
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I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.
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I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.