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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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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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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Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'
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Of course you're nervous going into a final.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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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?
