Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

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• I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • World
  • Explore

• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • War
  • Trees
  • Buildings

• There are no rebels in the cinema business.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Business
  • Cinema
  • Rebels

• I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Think
  • Playing
  • Average

• Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Want
  • Publish

• Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Interesting
  • Attitude
  • Brand

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Writing
  • Name
  • Point

• I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Job
  • Best

• Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Change

• My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Kind
  • Voice
  • Born

• I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

• My characters hope for better lives.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Hope
  • Better
  • Characters

• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Always
  • Strange

• Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.

  

  David Rudisha
  • People
  • Good
  • Humble

• I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular New York references on it, but I also see it, for us, as the first of our records that really opened up to the larger world around us.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • First
  • New York
  • Record

• If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Wisdom

• I'm my biggest inspiration. And I say this in the most humble way. I've been through so much, just in my life.

  

  Brandy
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Humble

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record