Walter Becker Quotes

I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.

Walter Becker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When I was a young lady, I never fantasized about getting married.

Jessica Williams

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Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

John Bright

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In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

John Bytheway

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Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.

Andrew Weil

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We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

Andy Rooney

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A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.

Stephen Kinzer

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Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

Steven Pinker

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If you look back at what I believe and what I stand for, I am certainly a proud feminist.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43. I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.

Tony Bennett

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Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.

Ross Butler

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I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

Michael Tubbs

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Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

Michael K. Powell

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