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Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.


Melody Beattie

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BILL BEATTIE He's definitely out for two-to-three weeks minimum -- and that's the good news. The bad news is surg...
BILL BEATTIE They found out they can't count on what's happened in the past, ... When you have success, you think...
BILL BEATTIE We hope to throw it around more, too, ... Especially since we don't have that seasoned offensive lin...
BILL BEATTIE As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't f...
IAN BEATTIE And lo! In the dark east, expanded high, the rainbow brightens to the setting sun.
JAMES BEATTIE Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here an...
JAMES BEATTIE It's a fresh, masculine and modern fragrance.
SCOTT BEATTIE Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, and sing enamoured of the nut-brown maid.
JAMES BEATTIE It's hard to express oneself at times like this,
MALCOLM BEATTIE We haven't had a cyclone like this for decades, if we've ever had one like it before.
PETER BEATTIE We will finish what we started. We will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.
PETER BEATTIE The CMC will have to determine what they will do,
PETER BEATTIE One thing we are determined to do is not put the people of Bundaberg and the patients of Dr Patel th...
PETER BEATTIE It's our job to accept the umpire's decision and to find a way through this mess.
PETER BEATTIE Everyone in the urban areas is actually paying full cost recovery.
PETER BEATTIE Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...alw...
ANN BEATTIE No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season...
JAMES BEATTIE We're breathing a sigh of relief.
LEE BEATTIE Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anythin...
JIM BEATTIE We're here to throw down the gauntlet of a $250 million match to the Legislature.
LYNN BEATTIE We'll fight to the end, but I don't think we'll win them (the seats),
PETER BEATTIE We're a team. You're going to face adversity through the season,
BILL BEATTIE At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, whe...
JAMES BEATTIE He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
JAMES BEATTIE