Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen, known by stage name Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 July 1970
CountryUnited States of America
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You don't know how grateful I am I didn't fail you.
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You get this local culture that develops in the legal system, these tough-on-crime judges -- usually former prosecutors -- who won't consider alternatives. Well, guess what, they end up with an alternative anyway, and that's letting them walk through the door early because of overcrowding. How is that tough on crime?
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Even if we have a bad day or something, we just get up on stage and pour as much of ourselves into the show as possible. We just pour out our hearts and souls and let everything go.
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Even though the parties are far apart rhetorically on this issue, they turn out not to be that far apart when it comes to the practicalities,
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Even though the crackdown on North Korea's illicit banking activities in Macau demonstrated that China is not completely immune to outside pressures to rein in bad behavior, Beijing is unlikely to shut down the North's remaining banking activities.
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Everyone works as hard as they can. It's not something I have to stay on them about.
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As time goes on, I am expecting, I am waiting for North Korea to act in a provocative manner, to lash out verbally, potentially even with a missile or even a nuclear test. Especially as Washington continues to try to squeeze them, and they are going to look for a way to get the world's attention by saying or doing something that is provocative.
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Attempts to protect the current level of immigration by wrapping it in the language of tradition or humanitarianism generally distort both history and the practical realities of our own era.
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When the girls started out 14 years ago, they only had 14 girls come out for the team. That is how it starts.
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Unfortunately, comments made by guest speakers at the Beyond the Game Dinner did not adhere to our policies or our mission.
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I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
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I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.
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Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
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Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'