Martha Beck Quotes
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
Ed Greenwood
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Kate Beckinsale
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
Karen Thompson Walker
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
Ted Cruz
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
Sam Worthington
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
Taylor Hanson Hanson
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
Naomie Harris
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
Hailey Bieber
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
Zubin Mehta
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I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.
Bobby Keys
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I'm quite grounded.
Enrique Iglesias
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The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'
Albert Shanker
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.
Pablo Picasso
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I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more.
David Thewlis
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One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
Martha Beck