Walter Becker Quotes
People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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I was suppressed for many years. From the outside, you'd think I had a very normal life.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
