Michael Beck Quotes
I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
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To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.
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Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.
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I love my country so much.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.
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Let us come together before we're annihilated.
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People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.
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I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?
