T. D. Jakes Quotes
Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh!...Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah!
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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A father is nowhere near as valuable as a spoon.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
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Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh!...Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah!
