Carla Bley Quotes
I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Being evil is easy.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
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Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.
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We only get one planet.
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In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn't evil because it's liberal but because it's lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig.
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More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.
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Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.
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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
