Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

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• I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Wants

• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
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• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
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• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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  • Best
  • Doing

• There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Singing

• People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
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  • Need

• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
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• A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

  

  Ted Danson
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• My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• There's no business like show business.

  

  Irving Berlin
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• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

  

  Zara Phillips
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• There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

  

  Bradley Cooper
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• I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
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• A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

  

  Jerry Rubin

• Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.

  

  E. Nesbit
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• In planes, everybody pees on the floor. Fact.

  

  Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir Of Monsters and Men
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  • Floor
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• I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

  

  Beck
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