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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.
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The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.
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I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!
