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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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.
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It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
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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.
