Martha Beck Quotes
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I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
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I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
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One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
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Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
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I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
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'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
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One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.
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Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
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I was raised in Holland, where race and homosexuality are not a subject matter but rather a part of life.
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Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
