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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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.
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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.
