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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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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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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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
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One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.
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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
