Walter Becker
Related I left basically to get a different perspective on life. I wasn't satisfied with myself or the type ... JEREMY SPENCER It feels pretty crazy. I never imagined all this attention. I was just trying to get healthy for mys... ANGELA HEFEL HELEN REDDY I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtr... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a s... KRISTANNA LOKEN More than anything, coming to a new organization like this, it wasn't about making the team or anyth... BRIAN TALLET JIM MORRISON A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I... HERBIE HANCOCK Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say somethi... FLORENCE WELCH I was just going out there and doing whatever I could to get a couple extra rebounds for our team, g... GRAHAM BROWN I just tried to show the team that I was healthy last year and I was capable of what I was capable o... WALLY SZCZERBIAK I pressed Information Services for a couple of years to get wireless service here. JENNY EMANUEL I hadn't been here a couple times, and I still haven't figured out exactly what I need to get the ca... JACK BAILEY Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the... STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN That's what I was doing in Portland. When I got up here, for some reason I wasn't doing it, I was tr... DUSTIN PENNER DIANE KEATON I was here a couple of years before I played . . . just didn't know anyone. BRANDON JACKSON SUZANNE VEGA Hawaii moved up to first for (room revenue) and occupancy in the nation and was just behind New York... JOSEPH TOY It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to ... JOSE GONZALEZ It's the best gift any mother or father could have, not to see their child stop a couple of times up... DAWN HINES AIMEE BENDER I had to get used to playing in cold weather. We got snowed out a couple of times. Remember, I went ... BRIAN FINEGAN I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a... EMIR KUSTURICA I'm not a guy who needs to drink coffee or anything to get myself going in the morning. I wake u... BILLY HORSCHEL I felt pretty good today, I was trying to keep my consistency. I ran with a couple of guys for awhil... DANYELLE PHELPS I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the w... CASSIE VENTURA I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying ... SCHOOLBOY Q The past couple years my name has popped up at the trade deadline, (and) I've been traded a couple o... OLLI JOKINEN I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. ... MARC WALLICE PIERCE BROSNAN I'd like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like... DYLAN O'BRIEN I'd like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like... DYLAN O'BRIEN I went up to take off, and I got tripped up or something. I was just trying to get to the basket, dr... JOSEPH JONES EDDIE VEDDER I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I'... GERRY HARVEY Before this year I hardly raced for the past couple of years. I'm just trying to get back into it an... DANYELLE PHELPS MONICA LEWINSKY I don't believe in a hope chest of music. This is all new music that I've written over the last coup... ANDREW HILL When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of... KRIST NOVOSELIC It's neat living downtown. I had built a house in Manitou, and I owned a couple fixer-uppers. I can ... JEFF MYERS We didn't have any expectations when we came here and just wanted to adjust to the new surroundings.... BRAD STUART JACKSON BROWNE I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I... TIM VINE I'm not trying to send any kind of message or anything like that. That kind of stuff doesn't matter ... AARON WILCOX WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE GINA RAIMONDO ANTONIN ARTAUD I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my... MERLE DANDRIDGE JOSHUA BELL BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN A German couple was just here (Tuesday) trying to straighten this out. And they were in tears. LOUIS BRINDISI I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that w... FALK HENTSCHEL CHAD HUGO I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a be... LUKE DONALD KATE THOMPSON Maria didn't like it. I didn't want to get into it. I was just trying to get myself not to lose my c... SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I re... K. FLAY I set out to prove that I can play in this league. It's kind of me trying to prove it to myself. I'm... CHAS GESSNER I haven't noticed any change in him, and I've been around him for three years. I just know he's a fi... LANCE HARRIS I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the mu... SKYLAR GREY I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push mysel... SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG A couple of more minutes. We have got to get out of here pretty soon or I am going to need a new boa... DOUG HEMMER I've been planning a chunk of time to myself for years now. It's been my intention to finish... JOHN CASSADAY I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid... FINN JONES I spent 2010-2012 in Stockholm, trying to figure things out. I caught up on life! At the end of 2012... ERIK HASSLE Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future fo... BENJAMIN BOOKER I was going down and I wasn't sure if I had Gina with me. So I was just kind of trying to get a shot... CARA HENDRY I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to reca... JOHN LURIE I was surprised at the fact that AXA Financial had spent so much time and money trying to build DLJ,... MICHAEL ANCELL I think it was just a misunderstanding. I was asked why I was standing in the corner, not being aggr... BEN GORDON TOMMY LEE I'm making strides. It's a faster game here so I've taken a couple of lumps but I'm working through ... JUSTIN HUBER I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattl... ANNA FARIS KENDARE BLAKE I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music. MIKE FIGGIS I graduated from college with a major in fiction writing, and then I spent years and years and years... JULIE POWELL These guys have been in the playoffs. They have been playing in October for a couple of years, and t... HUMBERTO COTA I was trying to learn the offense, trying to find out who I was and trying to get myself to fit in. ... LARRY TURNER PARKER POSEY I wasn't prepared for the environment I encountered trying to break into television news. In the... GRETCHEN CARLSON BECKY G I've gotten to go to the Opry a couple of times and stand backstage and watch. But I made it a p... DUSTIN LYNCH I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple... NATALIE ZEA STEVE MARTIN I thought we let them get to the basket too easy at times. Becker is a strong player and we knew he ... JOE STASYSZYN I had this in my mind. I think about it before the game, every game. I see myself doing it before it... JAMES HARDY I'm here trying to gauge my music and the ice and get into the season. Last season, we had the same ... EVAN LYSACEK It's The Premiership and I have been wanting to play here for a couple of years, HIDETOSHI NAKATA If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach m... CHRIS WOOD I'm not a natural. I had to teach myself - or be taught - everything I do. I just spent hours an... NE-YO I was just trying to put it on net and not get it blocked. The goal got me going and helped out a lo... DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN CHRIS BROWN It was important for me to get in. I didn't show up to practice yesterday and I just had to prove my... KAMERON HANDY SARAH WILLIAMS We got through it. Going in I was concerned with a couple things I'm not concerned about now though.... BRAD CATTERMOLE I don't think I've ever forced a fumble before. I always played offense my whole life -- a little de... DESMOND CLARK I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hour... DALEY THOMPSON MARY OLIVER
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Den fr... NIKOLAUS BECKER The only reason the eagles leave is to find food. With so many people ice fishing and with the incre... BRUCE BECKER That's what we're here for. We want people to eat it. BRUCE BECKER There is a huge cost of doing it the right way, ... We could have done this less expensively, but I ... BRUCE BECKER There would be no way to do a revenue-management system without having reservations, BRUCE BECKER While we recognize some fares have been increased, we're pleased a number of fares have (gone down),... BRUCE BECKER We want to make sure we don't have to compromise our ideals, BRUCE BECKER We're pleased Amtrak is recognizing the enormity of some of the proposed fare increases and is takin... BRUCE BECKER We're still deeply concerned at the lack of flexibility for business travelers with the introduction... BRUCE BECKER BORIS BECKER We're reorienting the antiwar movement to make the connection between the vast expenditure for the w... BRIAN BECKER I think we do need to move very swiftly in creating value for consumers and reacting to the economic... BRIAN BECKER Our only concern is that the police not get out of hand. BRIAN BECKER The ANSWER Coalition, the NCAA is not only disappointed with the ruling, ... but we condemn the city... BRIAN BECKER a diplomatic fig leaf to serve for this administration and as a trigger to war. BRIAN BECKER We believe we are at a tipping point whereby the anti-war sentiment has now become the majority sent... BRIAN BECKER People are very angry at the Bush administration. BRIAN BECKER Because of the Kinder Decision, we have to take local tax efforts into consideration when dividing t... BRIAN BECKER I believe it is the most vivid and compelling demonstration that the war in Iraq is not only needles... BRIAN BECKER They are not screening based on security, ... They're screening based on political intent. BRIAN BECKER There will be places in there for residents to stop and sit down and chat with each other, maybe som... BRENDA BECKER (It's) so we don't start with our plan then find out eight years down the road that the zoning laws ... BRENDA BECKER We're still in such preliminary stages that you couldn't fix any definitive costs. BRENDA BECKER We've been here since 1979. And we're taking a look at what our current residents are looking for in... BRENDA BECKER The city is not going anywhere. The heart of the city's economy survived. It will be a different pla... BOB BECKER We would like to get at least one course open, but I don't know how we could do that. We have no sta... BOB BECKER Nature is a resilient female. You can see her coming back everywhere. BOB BECKER At least that might allow us to hire some people back. BOB BECKER We were on the verge of greatness. This has set us back 70 years. BOB BECKER I will be honest, I'm scared to death of what's going to happen to the eighth elementary. BOB BECKER the park is filled with Delgado students. BOB BECKER He's extraordinary. He's the most focused athlete I've ever trained with. BOB BECKER You almost never see work of consequences being accomplished by one person alone. Everyone works as ... BOB BECKER Even if we could get the debris cleared up and get trailers to operate out of, we don't have anybody... BOB BECKER BORIS BECKER BORIS BECKER BORIS BECKER BORIS BECKER BORIS BECKER BORIS BECKER BORIS BECKER BORIS BECKER BORIS BECKER It's not due until June, but I'm going to have it done in a couple of weeks. Doing it does not const... CARL BECKER I used to paint model soldiers as a kid. CARL BECKER Your life will be very different, ... You need to work your way back, and the one thing I can do is ... CARL BECKER If you are thrown out of drug court, you are automatically facing 2 1/3 to 4 years in state prison. CARL BECKER You made a series of very poor decisions, CARL BECKER Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him CARL BECKER Washington liked that look, because it made the British think they were all crack shots. CARL BECKER Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their... CARL BECKER The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening th... CARL BECKER The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. CARL BECKER He connected all the dots, and it worked out. DAVID BECKER [In insider trading cases,] you connect the dots not by simply going from one dot to another but by ... DAVID BECKER There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from 'The Guardian'... JO BECKER It seems to me the vultures have stopped circling. GEOFFREY BECKER [To survive has required tenacity. 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BARBARA BECKER The wonderful thing about students doing the work is that they're always full of great ideas and ent... BARBARA BECKER Instead we were filling the newspaper with bland, harmless stories, and if there was anything sensit... JASPER BECKER Ford is a big part of the global warming problem, but they have failed to adopt more than token solu... DAN BECKER Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from... DAN BECKER Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is hist... KUNO BECKER As soon as you implement a strong, fixed target for reducing oil use, stricter fuel standards will i... DAN BECKER It turns out that the latter is the case. The chemical composition appears to be very ordinary. GEORGE BECKER It's appalling that Nissan, V.W. and Hyundai are accelerating in reverse. 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BRAD BECKER We had to do a lot of up-front setup. Companies can go out of business if they have a fire and haven... BRAD BECKER We're totally dependent on computer accounting and record keeping. BRAD BECKER Their client base is more sensitive to price increases than clients of fine restaurants. BOB BECKER Once it's district, the coaches say there is no more getting better. (The coaches) just keep ... mak... FRANK BECKER ERNEST BECKER The median amount of time from when the symptoms start to when they do die is four to five months an... CHERYLE BECKER He came up to me and said, ?Can you buy me some toys?? We would have bought every toy store for this... RICK BECKER How do we know there's not more out there. We have to figure out a way do that. BILL BECKER He hit it with a hammer, and a sliver of metal came and hit him in the right eye. He had a pretty mi... BILL BECKER She really gave up a year of her life. 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