Walter Becker Quotes
I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Love is just chemistry.
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I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.
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No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.
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It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.
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I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
