Carla Bley Quotes
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.
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Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
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I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.
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A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
