Carter Burwell Quotes
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
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Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.
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That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
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I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.
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I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
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I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
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People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.
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If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.
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The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.
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I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of the ways that immigrants and disenfranchised people move into the middle class.
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Mon ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done.
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I don't like 'cool telly.'
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
