Walter Becker Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
