David Oyedepo Quotes
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
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I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally.
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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
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This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.
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Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.
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People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
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Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.
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In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.
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When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.
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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
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A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
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It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.
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Your harvest is not in view until your prayers rise up to heaven.
