Carter Burwell Quotes
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.
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You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
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When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.
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But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.
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In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
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Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.
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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
