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 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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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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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.
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I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.
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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
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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
