Martha Beck Quotes
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
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The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
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Since music is so important to me, I don't need to put in any extra effort to do this; it just flows for me. It's as simple as drinking water and having food, so definitely, music is one of the main purposes of my life.
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I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.
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If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
