Walter Becker Quotes
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.Walter Becker Steely Dan
Quotes to Explore
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
Maajid Nawaz -
Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
Zac Posen -
I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
Yogi Berra -
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
Barbara Block
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This town was built on nepotism.
Damon Wayans -
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
Ted Rall -
It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
Felix Dennis -
I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
Dakota Fanning
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch -
I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
Ted Cruz -
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
Vida Blue -
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
Ted Nelson -
I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
Gary Lineker -
It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
Laura Donnelly
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The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.
Jan C. Ting -
The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.
Eric Schmidt -
I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.
Ian Lawton -
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker Steely Dan