Ted Dekker Quotes
What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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You have to be yourself.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
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Faith is important to me.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
