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.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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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.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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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.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.
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Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
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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
