Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (T Bone Burnett) Quotes
Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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No man may make another free.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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I don't want people to get the impression that I got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.
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I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.
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In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left...with a foolish grin.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
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Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.
