Martha Beck Quotes

If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Believe
  • May
  • Circumstances

• I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Music
  • Trying

• I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Day

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• You cannot mix sports with politics.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Sports
  • Politics

• Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Love
  • See
  • Difference

• I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.

  

  Aarti Mann
  • Really
  • Pay
  • Get

• I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Long
  • Think
  • Internet

• Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Future
  • Success
  • Story

• Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Never
  • Say

• One of the things I love about music is live performance.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Live
  • Things

• The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Play
  • Couple

• We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Law
  • Responsibility

• Anybody can leap off a building.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Building
  • Anybody
  • Leap

• Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Family

• The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Wish
  • Celebrity

• Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Write
  • Figure Out
  • Funny movie

• I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was.

  

  Nikki Sanderson
  • Fashion
  • Decade
  • Outfit

• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

  

  Martha Beck