Walter Becker Quotes
With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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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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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.
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My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.
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In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
