Carla Bley Quotes

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

Carla Bley

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PeopleYouPlayFullestSoloBehind

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

Angela Braly

QuestionGetCostsReallyUnderlying

When results are shared freely amongst the biological community, as has been done for the worm and the Human Genome Projects, specialist scientists can move much more rapidly towards their goals.

John Sulston

GoalsCommunityResultsDoneHuman

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Amanda Palmer

JourneyFlameCareerNeverSet

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it.

Shiri Appleby

EarlyDownFirstAlwaysSeasonBeen

Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.

Ronaldinho

PoliticsPeopleWinWorldYouBack

I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.

Roz Chast

GreatDeathAliveDoneJokesThings

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

Julia Gillard

BelieveResultYouHalfBetween

I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.

Demetrious Johnson

TalentTrueReactOverEverything

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

Bob Ney

SocietyBelieveViewNothingNeed

The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way.

Bruce Feiler

CommunityAloneWalkStepSlowYou

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

Alice Morse Earle

LifeEyesStruggleBabyNewHour

'Fame' exhausts me.

Alice Walker

MeFame

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