Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
I never really had them. I always get the eccentric kids who dress funny and sit and write poetry for three months in their bedrooms......I was going to see tons of shows when I was a teenager, so if I was a girl, would that have made me a groupie? If I wanted to shake Thurston Moore's hand or something?
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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The world is no longer against us.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.
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When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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At home, I like my kids to drink out of stainless steel tumblers. They are non-breakable and non-toxic.
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Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
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I never really had them. I always get the eccentric kids who dress funny and sit and write poetry for three months in their bedrooms......I was going to see tons of shows when I was a teenager, so if I was a girl, would that have made me a groupie? If I wanted to shake Thurston Moore's hand or something?
