Donald Fagen Quotes
What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen
Steely Dan
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Garrett Camp
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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.
V. S. Pritchett
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Existence is its own justification, need is right.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Memory is your image of perfection.
Barbara Kruger
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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.
Garth Nix
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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.
R. D. Laing
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I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.
Lee Pace
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
Gabriel Luna
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But the fundamental reason for taking the time to read is because books (good books, that is; books that matter) are the best aid to extended thought and imaginative reflection we have invented. In our own time, this is particularly important, as an antidote to the segmentation of thought encouraged by digital technologies. Cruising among the infinite quanta of data offered on the internet is fine for finding out information; but the disparate fragments we look at on our various screens rarely cohere into continuous thought, or a deepening of knowledge.
Eva Hoffman
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I firmly believe that you can’t manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.
Ryan Reynolds
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What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen
Steely Dan
