Ted Dekker Quotes

The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

Ted Dekker

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

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• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  

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• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

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• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

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• I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

  

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• I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

  

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• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

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• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

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• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

  

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• When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

  

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• Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.

  

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• Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
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• There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

  

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• To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

  

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• I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

  

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• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  

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• The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.

  

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• We've never been to Israel. I'd like to play in Israel.

  

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• You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.

  

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• The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Alone
  • Dark