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?
Quotes to Explore
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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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There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.
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When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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By forcing us to look closely at our requests, prayer purifies us.
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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?
