Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
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You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
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I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.
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I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
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Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.
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It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a
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Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
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The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
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I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.
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Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A.
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Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, then we shall resort to sterner means.
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But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
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Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.
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No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
