Joel Osteen Quotes
Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.
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I don't like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead of being free, as I do on stage, to do my work.
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As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
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What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.
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Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
