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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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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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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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.
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I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect.
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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.
