Galen Beckett Quotes
Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much
Quotes to Explore
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
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The best story is the story that gets to the most people.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
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Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much
