Bernard Beckett Quotes
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
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I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'
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We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
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I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
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I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.
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Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means ‘pretending to be a lion’….It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
