T. D. Jakes Quotes

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

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• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Youth

• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Digital

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Animals
  • London
  • Elephant

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Temptation

• I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Fight
  • Train
  • Wherever

• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Islamic

• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Friend

• On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Planet
  • Most

• I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Love

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mistake

• It's not healthy to be jealous.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Healthy
  • Jealous

• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • You
  • Change
  • Opinion

• I've always believed certain things: You treat everybody nicely because, more than anything, it's the right thing to do. And then you also never know when someone will be in position to help you or hurt you. I know I've gotten help from a lot of people who said good things about me because I treated them well.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • People
  • Good
  • Help

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now. - Time Stand Still (1987)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Time

• If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Care
  • Smart

• I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Purpose