Margaret Beckett Quotes
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.
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I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs on there.
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Baseball is just my job.
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I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.
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My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.
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I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?
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Wealth, or large amounts of possessions seemed to him limiting. They brought their own prison with them. He preferred, since he had once known a kind of prison, to travel free.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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The Mystical Body of Christ does not rest on abstract principles but on concrete persons who have missions, or on missions which are personal.
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It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.
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I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.
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Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
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Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.
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I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.
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I don't join or leave things lightly.
