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.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• Tone can be as important as text.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Important
  • Text
  • Tone

• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Know
  • More

• 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?'

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Everything
  • U.S.
  • Custom

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Today
  • Sex

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• 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.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

  

  Iman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Years

• 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.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Ugly

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Artistic

• I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Down
  • Trial

• When I get home after being away for work, my wife always stuffs the fridge with loads of what she calls 'nibbles' - all the great things you can eat straight from the fridge, like chunks of cheese, slices of ham, bowls of hummus.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Family
  • Liar

• My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play football. I cannot control the other circumstances.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Career
  • Control
  • Football

• It doesn't matter whether the market is up or down. All the day traders want is volatility.

  

  Omar Amanat
  • Up

• Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life