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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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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.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.
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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.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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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.
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We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.
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Anybody can leap off a building.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
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We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.
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I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.
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The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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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.
