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.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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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.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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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.
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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.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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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.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,Out of the land of bondage came,Her fathers' God before her mov'd,An awful guide in smoke and flame.
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This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'
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I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.
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When people have passion there's nothing they can't do.
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You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
