Walter Becker Quotes
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.Walter Becker Steely Dan
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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.
Sam Raimi -
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
M.I.A. -
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.
Sally Yates -
I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
Talulah Riley -
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.'
A. Scott Berg -
Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
Kate Brown
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
Kailash Kher -
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.
Zainab Salbi -
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.
Flavor Flav -
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
Barry Bonds -
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Carlos Fuentes
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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.
Laura Vandervoort -
Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
Nargis Fakhri -
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Irving Babbitt -
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.
Ichiro Suzuki -
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott Peck -
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.
Kate Atkinson
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History is not hatred.
Malcolm X -
Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.
P. J. O'Rourke -
He remembered suddenly, at this moment, as he looked at the squares of moonlight lying on the floor, the time when he had first realized that pain is a thing that we must face and come to terms with if life is to be lived with dignity an not merely muddled through like an evil dream... In some vague way he had understood that dark things are necessary; without them the silver moonlight would just stream away into nothingness, but with them it can be held and arranged into beautiful squares.
Elizabeth Goudge -
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
Hermann Hesse -
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker Steely Dan