Walter Becker Quotes
From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
