Walter Becker Quotes

I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.

Walter Becker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1950 - September 3, 2017

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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

John C. Maxwell

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I certainly don't feel any more super than any of the other people I knew in my working life... Quite the reverse. In fact, guilt is my middle name, and I think anybody who does do that thing with work and children and everything knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Jennifer Rowe

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After I came out to my mother at 17, I ran away from home and lived with a friend. We come from a highly religious family, and she could not accept it. It was devastating, and I was depressed.

Angelica Ross

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My formative years would be in South Central Los Angeles. It was a really volatile environment, but, I always say, when you're living in the hood, you don't live this life where you're crying every day, downtrodden every day.

John Singleton

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Things don't just fall into place because you have a dream. You're always going to have those negative thoughts. Our minds love to play with us - we're going to be our own worst critics - but I just say to myself, 'File it back.' I just try to bring any negative thoughts to light and deal with them, so I can file them away.

Stephen Colletti

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I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

Sophie Kinsella

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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Tony Benn

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I'm always getting confused with LeBron James. Everywhere I go, I'm LeBron James.

Deontay Wilder

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The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get.

Douglas Booth

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Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Dee Hock

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When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.

Wynton Marsalis

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When you're prepared, and you do the best you can do, and you put it out there on the floor, you've just got to live with the results.

Tyronn Lue

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