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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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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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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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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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
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I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.
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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.
