Walter Becker Quotes
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
B. B. King -
When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
Zack Snyder -
When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
R. Kelly -
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo -
It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
Owen Hart -
Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
Major Taylor
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
Barry Ritholtz -
Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
Dani Shapiro -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria -
I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
Nadia Comaneci -
I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
Jack Canfield
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You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot -
I get a great high from writing.
Walter Hill -
There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
Hack Wilson -
Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel Castro -
My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
Haley Joel Osment
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
A. A. Milne -
There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.
Caroline Gordon -
I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
Wayne Knight -
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
Linus Torvalds -
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
Oscar Wilde -
In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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