Walter Becker Quotes

You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'

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• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Strange
  • Kid
  • Piano

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Book
  • College
  • Graduation

• Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Him

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Lucky
  • Kid
  • Just

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • College
  • Church
  • Football

• When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Today
  • College
  • Brother

• There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • College
  • Play
  • Style

• I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Time
  • College
  • Search

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'

  

  Maggie Grace
  • School
  • Christian
  • Kid

• When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Knowledge
  • College
  • Kid

• Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • College
  • Arts
  • Golden

• There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Realize

• I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Romantic
  • Clothes

• I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot they had left was a theater class. It was so annoying, but I took it and then I thought it was the greatest thing; the most socially creative. I dropped out of school immediately and moved to New York to start acting. I was 19.

  

  Jonny Weston
  • School
  • College
  • Annoying

• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Trying

• I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Different
  • Real
  • Friends

• You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • College
  • Clothes
  • Kid