Walter Becker Quotes
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
Quotes to Explore
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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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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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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 emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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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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If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.
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There is a good deal more to nothing than meets the eye.
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I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
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There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
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Sometimes the scene is a sad scene but you have to play it with a laugh to find out that that doesn't work or that there's really a part of that in it, and that's what rehearsal is for, to take that time.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
