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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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 don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
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I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
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During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.
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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.
