Walter Becker Quotes

I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

  

  Ed Belfour
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• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  

  Frances Farmer
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• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
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• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
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• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

  

  Banks
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• Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

  

  Walter Smith
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• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
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• It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.

  

  Karen Duffy
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• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  

  Randy Newman
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• 'Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude, are you an Indian?' And he was cool. 'Yes. Yes, I'm an Indian.' Still didn't believe him. I had to test him to be sure. This is fucked up, but I had a gum wrapper in my pocket, so I balled that shit up and I threw it on the floor. And a single tear came out of his eye. I said 'oh, shit!' I had so many questions.

  

  Dave Chappelle
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• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
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• She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

  

  Dennis Hastert
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• I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.

  

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