Carla Bley Quotes
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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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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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
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A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.
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Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
