T. D. Jakes Quotes
Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.
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The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
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I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.
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The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
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Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
