Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.
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I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
