Carla Bley Quotes
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
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I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.
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I've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.
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Today in America, the middle class is disappearing.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
