Donald Fagen Quotes
What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.
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I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.
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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
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I love Westerns!
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.
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Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.
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Memory is your image of perfection.
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'Summon him forth,' instructed the Will. 'Let justice be meted out. There is much to do, you know, Arthur.' 'You'd think we could 'ave a cup of tea and biscuit first,' muttered Suzy.
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We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on 'his' behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.
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Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always Lennox should react, not think. But thats nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.
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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
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What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
