Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because I am a courageous person or anything, but because I see international standards, and I see that they are worth fighting for.
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
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My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
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Glasgow is certainly a place where they will tell you if they don't think you are anything special.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
