T Bone Burnett Quotes
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
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Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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When I was young, we had these parties, and they'd make me sing in front of the family all the time.
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Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.
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Music will save the world.
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In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
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Music that I really love and believe in and think is extraordinarily honest and beautiful doesn't always become popular. (Oct, 1994 interview).
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I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?'
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The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.
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The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.
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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
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When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.
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I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.
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I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.
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I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
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Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.
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It's not easy to get a celebrity to attach themselves to something. You have to build a relationship.
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Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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I just roll with the punches.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
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Consistency is very important when you're making films.
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I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.
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In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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When you hire a plumber because no hot water is coming out of the kitchen sink faucet, you need to go to the water heater, not the faucet.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
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I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
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I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.
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With me, what you see is what you get.
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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
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Most jokes state a bitter truth.
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As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.
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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
