Beatrice Wood Quotes
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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Prince and I happen to think alike.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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I believe in collaboration and cooperation.
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I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
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Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.
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I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.
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I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.
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I don’t like religion because it relies on other people - you shouldn’t need to rely on others for knowledge. I think the only thing you need to believe is in yourself. I think people are weak if they need something to worship.
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It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
