Martha Beck Quotes
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
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Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.
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History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
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I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
