Carl Reiner Quotes
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.
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People know a planet when they see one, and I think that's a pretty darn good test, in fact, for planethood.
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I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.
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What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
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Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
