Joko Beck Quotes

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

Joko Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 27, 1917 - June 15, 2011

Topics

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I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it's still necessary - completely necessary.

Jesmyn Ward

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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Robert Orben

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Some people ask why we don't just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is that we sometimes can't get to the end story without going through this process... When a story is up and posted, it's amazing how many people come out of the woodwork to give us additional information... And readers love it.

Michael Arrington

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My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.

Stephen Harper

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The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew, in a way, is a brand. When people start listing who are the great fictional detectives, I want Veronica Mars to make that list. That would be the dream scenario.

Rob Thomas

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They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

Robert Toombs

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I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

Rupert Friend

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I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.

Michael Robotham

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I've remained in touch with more than a dozen descendants of Gremlin Special survivors, victims, and rescuers. I treasured my friendship with Earl Walter Jr., the lead paratrooper who jumped into the valley to protect the survivors.

Mitchell Zuckoff

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I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future.

Luca Guadagnino

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I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Bobby Vinton

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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shenstone

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