Walter Becker Quotes
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Quotes to Explore
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself.
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I think it's really a good thing.... It's the best thing for the show, and I feel really good about it.
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I have tremendous faith in President Obama's skills. He's a long-term visionary.
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In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.
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I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
