Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (T Bone Burnett) Quotes
Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?
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The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
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I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the book you're just ticking off boxes. I think that after you see the movie, reading the book is a cool thing. I always say the movie's not meant to replace the book. That's ridiculous. I'm a huge fan of the book.
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Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
