Walter Becker Quotes
I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
