I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it be?' But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.


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ALAN BECK
What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years l...
ALAN BECK
Boys are found everywhere on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running arou...
ALAN BECK
I thought it was kind of silly when we started looking into it.
ALAN BECK
If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whi...
JEFF BECK
As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT
I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
BECK BENNETT
Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They&#...
BECK BENNETT
I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.
BECK BENNETT
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who ha...
BECK BENNETT
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll ...
ALLAN BECK
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
ALLAN BECK
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free a...
GLENN BECK
A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of y...
ALLAN BECK
A boy is a magical creature--you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of yo...
ALLAN BECK
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
GLENN BECK
What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and...
GLENN BECK
Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstr...
KENT BECK
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, bu...
ULRICH BECK
Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung...
GLENN BECK
I think I've explored hip-hop for a while, and felt like I wanted to get into where that music was c...
BECK HANSEN
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true ge...
BECK HANSEN
I think you just end up following into the things that you're familiar with -- that you're comfortab...
BECK HANSEN
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls com...
BECK HANSEN
When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a c...
GLENN BECK
My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learn...
MICHAEL BECK
I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary defin...
KENT BECK
Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.
GLENN BECK
There is no such thing as a lockdown in a 100-bed dorm that's in name only. That's like saying you'v...
ALLEN BECK
The problem is we are lumping everybody together.
ALLEN BECK
He's forced into that. No astute correctional officials will voluntarily put their highest-risk inma...
ALLEN BECK
You get this local culture that develops in the legal system, these tough-on-crime judges -- usually...
ALLEN BECK
We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country...
GLENN BECK
'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big...
GLENN BECK
People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big gov...
GLENN BECK
It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Wi...
JEFF BECK
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
GLENN BECK
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of...
JEFF BECK
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the...
JOKO BECK
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have b...
JOKO BECK
Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate...
GLENN BECK
I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the l...
JEFF BECK
If life were easy, then it would be boring.
CHARLES BECK