Martha Beck Quotes
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
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We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.
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I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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You can't even go out with a friend who's a celebrity and have a good time without people making shit up.
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To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
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The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.
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These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong.
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We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!
