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The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.


Martha Beck

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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