Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
Quotes to Explore
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.
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The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
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Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
