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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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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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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People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.
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Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.
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I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
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Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?
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Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.
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As long as our quality and company continue to get better, by nature, we will get bigger.
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The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.
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I don't join or leave things lightly.
