Walter Becker Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
Iris Apfel -
Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
Macaulay Culkin -
I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
Hans Vestberg -
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Rachel Kushner -
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
Foster Friess -
As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
Caity Lotz -
You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
Yaya Toure -
I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
Laura Moser
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
Imtiaz Ali -
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
Ed O'Neill
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I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.
Harrison Ford -
We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
Stevie Wonder -
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
Dani Shapiro -
I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff.
Natalie Cole -
Having my name kind of pop out on a page more so than other people helped in recruiting, helped in a lot of different areas. But when it comes down to it and you're talking about professional football - you can either play, or you can't. They don't care what your last name is at the end of the day.
Jordan Rodgers -
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
Walter Becker Steely Dan