Carl R. Trueman Quotes
I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal?
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.
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I really like cable T.V.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
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I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.
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Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
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I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
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Money has come to play a very bad role in the ANC; people's votes are bought, and patronage has become the order of the day. All those deviant tendencies need to be curbed.
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If there is one thing I am, it's always right.
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Don't expect yourself to immediately love your stepchildren. In fact, you may hate them for a bit.
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I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal?
