Carla Korbes Quotes

There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract.

Carla Korbes

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PerspectiveCityMovingViewYear

There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory.

Jesmyn Ward

MemoriesTimeChildhoodMemoryHeat

I've always used Southern rappers in epigraphs for my novels. For 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' I wanted to use Big K.R.I.T. - because I have so much respect for the lyrical depth of their music.

Jesmyn Ward

MusicRespectAlwaysBigDepthUsed

The baby boomers have dropped the ball on their burden of responsibility.

Meghan McCain

ResponsibilityBabyBurdenBall

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

Jeff Bezos

CompanyBeingBecauseLastGet

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Simon Newcomb

LifeFatherTeacherSchoolCountry

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Tony Visconti

LifeFatherGreatJobNew YorkNew

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.

Tom Waits

GoodBaseballPeopleStandYouSee

The last thing our children need is less protection.

Lisa Madigan

ChildrenNeedProtectionLastOur

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

Johnny Van Zant

TrySomethingArtistsMany

Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.

Dominique Swain

PeopleThinkBackSometimesInsult

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Dorothy Hamill

PeopleStandIceYouPersonSkating

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

Aurora

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