Walter Becker Quotes
Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
Naomi Watts
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
Walter Gilbert
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
B. D. Wong
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
Padgett Powell
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Maeve Binchy
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
Karl Marlantes
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
Laura San Giacomo
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
Gail Porter
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
Sabrina Carpenter
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For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.
Martin Clunes
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
John Philip Sousa
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Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
