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.

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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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If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.
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My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them.
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...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.
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'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
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The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
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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.