Walter Becker Quotes
We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The issue of access to growth capital is common to all entrepreneurs. Any entrepreneur who can demonstrate a credible business model and plan would be able to access to capital.
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It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.
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You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
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I like some pants; I just don't like jeans very much. Dresses are so much easier because I don't have to think very hard.
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
