Walter Becker Quotes
It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.Walter Becker Steely Dan
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
Randeep Hooda -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
Daniel Craig -
I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
Manny Pacquiao -
Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
J. D. Hayworth -
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
Irrfan Khan -
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane -
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
Ralph Nader -
Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
J. B. Smoove -
Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
Ted Yoho -
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
Pamela Anderson -
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Maimonides -
Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
Pat Buchanan
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
Walter Map -
If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.
T. J. Miller -
To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.
Bob Beauprez -
In film, you get the license to try and go for emotions that you normally try to keep away from you.
Alicia Vikander -
It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
Walter Becker Steely Dan