Martha Beck Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.
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If it is a fantasy fiction, and you want to portray a story of a vampire, you have to keep the essence of the story same. But if you have to have five episodes a week, where do we get so much content from?
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
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If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google and Facebook are now - how do we get more people to buy a copy? Then there was a shift in the early 20th century. They needed to do better, and readers and consumers demanded that of them.
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When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
