Martha Beck Quotes
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.
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I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.
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That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.
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I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.
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Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
