Walter Becker Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
Karolina Kurkova -
That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
Laura Osnes -
You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
Magic Johnson -
I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
Felicia Day -
In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
Wayne Dyer -
America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
Barack Obama
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
Vance Packard -
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. Skinner -
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna -
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
Bashar al-Assad
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
Nana Mouskouri -
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson -
I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
Hannah Murray -
There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
Zooey Deschanel -
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Karl Kraus -
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
Wallace Shawn
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne -
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
Bao Dai -
The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.
Kate Williams -
At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.
Lady Gaga -
People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.
Namie Amuro -
Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'
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