Steve Lukather Quotes
If it wasn't for the Porcaro brothers, I don't know where I'd be right now. My life would be completely different.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
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You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
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‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.
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Life is like an analogy.
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The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
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No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.
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There's no reason ever to steal because you're upset.
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If it wasn't for the Porcaro brothers, I don't know where I'd be right now. My life would be completely different.
