T. D. Jakes Quotes
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
Quotes to Explore
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I write novels and other things.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
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Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.
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Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
