T. D. Jakes Quotes
I have certain standards for myself so if something drops beneath that standard or if the opportunity doesn't fit who I am authentically at my core - I don't invest time where my brand isn't respected or where what I have to offer isn't appreciated.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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One tends to write beyond what's needed.
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I do think that we are an overmedicated society.
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Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the same office and instant-message each other? Why don't you just walk over?' That's the perfect example of how ingrained the status quo is. To certain people, it may seem lazy, but I would argue it's much more efficient and considerate.
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To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
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Do all you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are.
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I have certain standards for myself so if something drops beneath that standard or if the opportunity doesn't fit who I am authentically at my core - I don't invest time where my brand isn't respected or where what I have to offer isn't appreciated.
