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.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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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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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.
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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 think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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I feel as though perhaps there's not a great match between the content I'm attracted to and the content that is considered attractive to some of the more major or more traditionally financed entities.
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I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.
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No one gets found in love. Everyone gets lost in it, Because love is overwhelming. Its beyond your control. You have to relinquish control to be in love. And that’s a good thing. There’s a beauty to being lost in something bigger than you.
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Jimmy Buffett, Mr. Margaritaville, said that if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
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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.
