Donald Fagen Quotes
Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.
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But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
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A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.
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A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.
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When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
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Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
