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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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
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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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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax cuts pass their lips.
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America will start winning again, winning like never before.
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A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
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I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.
