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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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
Alan Ball
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My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.
Andy Behrman
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Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.
William Z. Foster
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People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
Ridley Scott
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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
Bill Walton
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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
