Martha Beck Quotes
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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I work out, and I try to stay active and fit so I can enjoy certain foods that I like to eat. I try to keep everything in moderation. I used to be insane about it.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
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With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
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If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder note than this might swellFrom my lyre within the sky.
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When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.
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Death was kind of a boisterous egomaniac that needed no encouragement.
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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
