Walter Becker Quotes
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.
Colson Whitehead -
I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
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I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
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I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.
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Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
