Martha Beck Quotes
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
Martha Beck
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
Zarin Mehta
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
Questlove
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
Iris Apfel
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
D.R.A.M.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
J. B. Smoove
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
Carlos Ponce
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My first album was completed in three months.
Adam Lambert
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
Sabine Lisicki
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
Walter Kirn
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
Laura Moser
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I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.
Katee Sackhoff
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Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
Ian Somerhalder
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Salman Rushdie
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Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: 'We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage.'
Jimmy Fallon
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The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.
Valerie Plame
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You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
Martha Beck
