Brad M. Carlson (Bun E. Carlos) Quotes
I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.
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What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.
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We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together.
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It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.
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Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!
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I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
