Carter Burwell Quotes

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

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• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Fun
  • Me

• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
  • Know
  • Me
  • Him

• My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Different
  • Down

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Try

• Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Character
  • Success
  • Said

• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • School
  • High

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • History
  • Doubt
  • Unique

• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Live
  • Death
  • Die

• This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Air

• A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Independent
  • Competition

• This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • Age
  • Future

• I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.

  

  Charice Pempengco

• My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Soul
  • Literature
  • Police

• I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.

  

  Jiang Qing
  • Dog

• Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Heart
  • Control

• It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Time
  • Music
  • Business

• But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Together

• I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • I Love
  • Comics
  • Las Vegas

• Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

  

  Abebe Bikila
  • Tragedy
  • Olympics
  • Victories

• When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.

  

  David Atwood
  • Children
  • Death
  • Violence

• When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Hurt
  • Helping
  • Tragedy