Bob Beckel Quotes

Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.

Bob Beckel

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• It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• I became a dancer late and an actor late.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Actor
  • Late
  • Dancer

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Nature
  • Alone
  • Unity

• I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Up
  • Control
  • Confidence

• In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Movie

• I didn't feel self conscious 'cause my sisters and I all had thick brows, and by the time I got to the age that I could be self conscious about them, they were in style!

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Time
  • Age
  • Style

• I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Alien

• I think that the loss of the house call has been the biggest blow to the art of medicine in this century. Not only has the patient lost this precious attention, but the physician has not found a replacement for the lost intimacy.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Art
  • House
  • Lost

• If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Experience

• The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Attention
  • Lies

• Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • Power
  • Support
  • Coaching

• With 'Wicked,' I was stepping into a role that I didn't make so that felt like I had more boundaries then I did with 'Carousel.'

  

  Lindsay Mendez

• Demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve... it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Success
  • Responsibility
  • Failure

• Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.

  

  David Hewson
  • Real
  • Experience

• I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Great
  • Job
  • Amazing

• After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

  

  Persis Khambatta
  • Star

• There are so many musicians in New York, and there is this energy and fire in this city that inspires you and makes you want to learn and to get out there. People are constantly evolving and constantly creating here, and you get pushed along just by being in that energy.

  

  Cyrille Aimee
  • People
  • Energy
  • City

• I'm comfortable with my body and it was a creative choice. I know that might make some women feel uncomfortable, but we need to stick together instead of getting angry at each other for our choices. I think women are sensual, beautiful beings, and I feel empowered when I express myself sexually.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Together

• But just get through this day. That's all you have to do.

  

  Alexander Dolgun
  • Day
  • Get
  • Through

• I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Difference

• Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.

  

  Bob Beckel