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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Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become.
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Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!
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As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.
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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.
