Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
