Ted Dekker Quotes
Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
Quotes to Explore
-
I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
-
I was a tomboy.
-
It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
-
I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
-
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
-
Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
-
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
-
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
-
I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
-
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
-
I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
-
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
-
The surface is all you get of me.
-
I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
-
The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
-
I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
-
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
-
Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
-
The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
-
My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
-
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
-
We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times are not the same. And do you know what that means? That means that time does not exist. Do you want me to repeat that? There is no time. There is a life and a death. There are people and animals. Our thoughts exist. And the world. The universe, too. But there is no time. You might as well take it easy. Do you feel better now? I feel better. This is going to work out. Have a nice day.
-
Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
