Ulrich Beck Quotes
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
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A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
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The relative lack of power of certain minority groups, and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, is something I think we really need to take a look at.
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I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.
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A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
