Joko Beck Quotes

To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.

Joko Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I like to just hang out. My friends don't like to do that, but I do. Because, a lot of times I'm busy, and I just kind of like to get a chance to just hang out.

Jenna Boyd

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Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.

John Catsimatidis

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'Mad About You' was very fun.

Mel Brooks

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If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

Tom Perez

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A lot of times in television, it's incredibly rushed, and you're just trying to get the pace.

Mike O'Malley

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It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Martina Navratilova

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If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Mickey Spillane

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And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Josh Radnor

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I'm here to help make sure that the people who do things well at DC are set up to do them as well, and even better, in the future.

Diane Nelson

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Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

Douglas Coupland

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I'm not a morning person. I'm really not.

Brooke Burke

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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

Ariel Dorfman

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