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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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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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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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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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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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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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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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.
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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.
