Martha Beck Quotes
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
Quotes to Explore
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
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My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.
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All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
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The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
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Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.
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I'm as loyal as anyone and will do anything for people I respect. But if you don't give that back to me in return, you're dead to me.
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
