Beryl Bender Birch Quotes

I'm not a rock star, I'm not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and thank God, because there's just too much risk of getting hit by flying tomatoes if you stick out that much.

Beryl Bender Birch

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• Tomatoes

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• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Reason

• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Years
  • Old
  • Barber

• My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Life
  • World
  • Father

• Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Men
  • Done
  • Why

• In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Fighting
  • Place
  • Debate

• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Pressure

• I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Inspired

• I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • School
  • Fighting

• There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Know
  • Spiritual
  • Information

• There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Work
  • Together
  • Understanding

• What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Money
  • Education
  • Talent

• I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Dark
  • Creation
  • Darkness

• I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Writing
  • Funny

• Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Women
  • Power

• Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Religious
  • Spring
  • Easter

• If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

  

  Charles W. Pickering
  • People
  • America
  • House

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Risk
  • Insurance

• That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

  

  Adrian Gonzalez
  • Experience
  • Baseball
  • Teachers

• I'm not a rock star, I'm not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and thank God, because there's just too much risk of getting hit by flying tomatoes if you stick out that much.

  

  Beryl Bender Birch
  • Risk
  • Stick
  • Tomatoes