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

• 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

• 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 tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Important
  • Energy

• If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Career
  • Way
  • Fairly

• I love Tike Alicar, The Anarchist. But I love Edie Sawyer, U-Go Girl, too. I was a little in love with her.

  

  Peter Milligan
  • Girl

• With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Passion
  • Purpose
  • Poetry

• As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Waves

• My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

  

  Gemma Chan
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Lawyer

• 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
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