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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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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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
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I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.
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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.
