T. D. Jakes Quotes
It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you - you are now controlling it.
Quotes to Explore
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I bought a girl roses once.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
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I came, I saw, God conquered.
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Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.
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What was this dream we had, a dream of music,Music that rose from the opening earth like magicAnd shook its beauty upon us and died away?The long cold streets extend once more before us.The red sun drops, the walls grow grey.
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Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.
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President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.
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It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you - you are now controlling it.
