Walter Becker Quotes
It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
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Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?
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Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
