Steve Lukather Quotes
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
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I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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The Seventies theory explosion i.e., Literary theory, deconstruction, etc. was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
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I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
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For many people, changing course is also a sign of weakness, tantamount to admitting that you don’t know what you are doing. This strikes me as particularly bizarre—personally, I think the person who can’t change his or her mind is dangerous. Steve Jobs was known for changing his mind instantly in the light of new facts, and I don’t know anyone who thought he was weak.
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Self-deprecation is my game.
