Daniel Beaty Quotes
We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
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Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.
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Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.
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I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long.
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There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
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It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
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We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
