Martha Beck Quotes
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.
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There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
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There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
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The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.
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The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
