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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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 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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You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.
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We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.
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I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair.
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I don't like to talk much, even when people speak bad about me. Inside me, I say, 'Why do they have to think of me that way?' But I know how I am. My objective is not that people follow me, but I'm happy that they do.
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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.
