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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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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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 make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.
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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
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The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.
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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.
