Donald Fagen Quotes
I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
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We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.
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Screens can work wirelessly and run on the amount of power supplied from a small solar panel and room light.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.
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The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
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I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
