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.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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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.
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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.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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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.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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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.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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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.
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There's no business like show business.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?
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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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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.
