Walter Becker Quotes
If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
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One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don't start as fanatics. They shift and evolve into that state. That's a process, a systematic process of losing your identity and sense of self.
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Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.
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There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
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Eating well and staying active is the necessary base to a clear complexion and a healthy body and mind.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
