Walter Becker Quotes
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
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Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.
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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
