T. D. Jakes Quotes
Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.
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I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
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Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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People should be travelling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime.
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Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.
