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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I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.
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People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.
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There isn’t a piece of clothing that is more valuable than you and how you feel about yourself.
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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.
