T. D. Jakes Quotes
I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.
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The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I got to perform it. It just kind of became therapy for me. I had just gotten through a break-up and I was talking about it a lot.
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Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.
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I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
