Walter Becker Quotes
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
B. B. King
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
Zack Snyder
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
R. Kelly
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
Owen Hart
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
Ted Danson
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
Major Taylor
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
Karl Marlantes
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
Barry Ritholtz
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There's more to life than physical and material.
Ziggy Marley
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
Dani Shapiro
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker
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I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
Nadia Comaneci
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
Jack Canfield
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You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
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I get a great high from writing.
Walter Hill
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
Hack Wilson
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On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.
Alan Taylor
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I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.
Matthew Gray Gubler
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Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods.
Pamela Druckerman
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
Walter Becker Steely Dan