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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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.
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As every faith teaches us -- and as presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt to Reagan to Clinton have reminded us -- we must as Americans, try to see our nation not just through our own eyes, but through the eyes of others.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
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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.
