Martha Beck Quotes

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1962

Topics

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In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.

Meghan Daum

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In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

Robert Mueller

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There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

John Stuart Mill

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My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

Ross MacDonald

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I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

Josef Albers

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Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

Jon Meacham

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Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

Sydney Smith

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I can't tell you how many guys have approached me when I'm doing cardio. Like, I have my headphones on; I'm in the zone, so don't bother me.

Nikki Bella

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With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

Ren Ng

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

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I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

Hisham Matar

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