Carter Burwell Quotes
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
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If people are caught up for 36 hours in a soulless building in Brussels, tempers are going to fray... It is in many ways a sad day for Europe. But out of this sad day there is an opportunity to reconnect.
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I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.
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Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.
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How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.
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The lean and mean fighting machines, we're beyond that.
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Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war.
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I think that contributed to it somewhat. So we live with that decision.
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When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.
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Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
