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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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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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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There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.
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The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
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Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
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Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.
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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.
