Walter Becker Quotes
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
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Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up for Album of the Year, that's when I started to be like, 'What in the world, this is crazy!' That one really got me in a pretty different way.
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When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other.
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NYU was my comfort zone.
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I like engineering, but I love the creative input.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
