Steve Lukather Quotes
I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
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The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
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It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
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It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.
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I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
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I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
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I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.
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I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.
