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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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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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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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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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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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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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 the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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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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My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.
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You must establish and maintain the beliefs that you are... capable, committed and destined to achieve your goals.
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I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.
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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.
