Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and father were feuding, so my mother would take us to live in my grandmother's house.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
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We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
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The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
