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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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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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
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Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.
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People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.
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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.
