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.
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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.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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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.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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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!
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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.
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Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
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If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
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We practically own everything in the Philippines.
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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.
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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.
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I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I dress like a 7-year-old space pilot. I have clothes that I still wear regularly from high school.
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If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.
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There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.
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We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.
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Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.
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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.
