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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Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.
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Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
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As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
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I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
