Walter Becker Quotes

I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

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• I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.

  

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• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

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• Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

  

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• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

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• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
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• I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

  

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• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

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• Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

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• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

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• Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

  

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• If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.

  

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• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

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• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

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• When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.

  

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• The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

  

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• I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

  

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• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

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• Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

  

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• My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

  

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• I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

  

  Ted Rall
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• What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

  

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• I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important