Martha Beck Quotes
I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?
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When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.
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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
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Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
