Ted Dekker Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I really hate to write.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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I want to go barefoot because it’s holy ground; I want to be running because time is short and none of us has as much runway as we think we do; and I want it to be a fight because that’s where we can make a difference. That’s what love does.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.
