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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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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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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Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
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Anything looks good if you've got the body of a Victoria's Secret model and the porelessly smooth skin-tone of a piece of glass.
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It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.
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Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere.
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My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
