D. Elton Trueblood Quotes
The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors.
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The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
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Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
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If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.
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The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
