T. J. Perkins Quotes
Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.
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The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.
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Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.
