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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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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You have to open up on stage.
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Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
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I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.
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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.
