Walter Becker Quotes
If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
Quotes to Explore
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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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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I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!
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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any of this.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
