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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

  

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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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• 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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• There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

  

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• Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

  

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• Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

  

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• The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

  

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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?

  

  Carl R. Trueman
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  • Students