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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Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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I like to make popcorn movies. It's my passion. I love the genre.
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Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
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But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.