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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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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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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The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies – Poverty, unemployment. Whether it is agriculture or industrial development, or for that matter, development in other fields, the basic fact remains – that it would serve the largest number of our people.
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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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When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.
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I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
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We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.
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When the Shah found himself in trouble, we quite literally stabbed him in the back.
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Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results. When you really feel like jumping into action, that is a clear sign that your vibration is pure and you are not offering contridicting thoughts to your own desire. When you are having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire.
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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?
