Martha Beck Quotes
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.Martha Beck
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We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.
Ian St. John -
Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
Gavin DeGraw -
I have been surfing since I was six years old.
Yigal Azrouël -
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
Radha Mitchell -
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
Bear Bryant
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
H. L. Mencken -
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Daniel Boone -
We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
Sam Yagan -
Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
Pat Buchanan -
If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
Valerie Azlynn -
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
Imelda Marcos
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
Patricia MacLachlan -
I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.
Tablo -
I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.
Francesca Annis -
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
Natalie Goldberg -
I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'
Madhuri Dixit
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More than anything, you have to respect the game and do things the right way.
Asdrubal Cabrera -
A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
Patrick Ness -
I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
Jada Pinkett Smith -
I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
Pythagoras -
For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust.
Debra Granik -
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
Martha Beck