Bernard Beckett Quotes
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.
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Alle zweckmäßigen Lebenserscheinungen wie ihre Zweckmäßigkeit überhaupt sind letzten Endes zweckmäßig nicht für das Leben, sondern für den Ausdruck seines Wesens, für die Darstellung seiner Bedeutung.
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The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.
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Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.
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I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious.
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Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.
