T. D. Jakes Quotes

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'

  

  Taye Diggs
  • I Love
  • Watching
  • Choreographer

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Style
  • Decision

• My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Hat
  • Off

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Want
  • Information

• If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Age
  • Aging
  • Disability

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
  • Early

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Thought

• The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Important
  • Food

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Writing
  • Taken
  • Capacity

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Earth
  • Face
  • Furniture

• The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.

  

  Ken Liu
  • World
  • Power
  • Age

• Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Oscar Wilde, the 20th-century gay boy was Stonewall and ACT UP. And in the 21st century, we have blocking people on Grindr. That's what we've accomplished. Without some kind of traction.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Gay
  • Achievement

• I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.

  

  Petula Clark
  • School
  • May
  • Kids

• To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

• I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that.

  

  Norman Lloyd
  • Move
  • Miss
  • Fast

• Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Class