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.

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• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Beauty

• I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Doubt
  • Meet

• My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Need

• 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
  • Live
  • Women
  • Character

• 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
  • Never
  • Conscience
  • Release

• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Movies
  • Television
  • Shows

• 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.
  • Work
  • Success
  • Guys

• 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
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• 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
  • Want
  • Moral
  • Try

• 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
  • Son
  • Speak
  • Walk

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• 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
  • Country
  • Cancer
  • Brave

• I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Eyes
  • Look
  • Blue

• Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Humble
  • Data

• Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.

  

  Edwin Starr
  • Time
  • Done

• I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

  

  Maxine Peake

• You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

  

  Buddy Hackett
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Boy

• If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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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