Walter Becker Quotes
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
