Bun E. Carlos quote: "Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple."

I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band...
BUN E. CARLOS

I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.
BUN E. CARLOS

I don't like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17...
BUN E. CARLOS

The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital...
BUN E. CARLOS

I practice every day and that kind of stuff to maintain my musicianship.
BUN E. CARLOS

In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gi...
BUN E. CARLOS

You just can't walk into a venue, sit behind your drums, and expect to play a great show. It'...
BUN E. CARLOS

Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's ...
BUN E. CARLOS

We were offered 100 'Sgt. Pepper' shows in Las Vegas with a huge back-end.
BUN E. CARLOS

I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff.
BUN E. CARLOS

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between...
BUN E. CARLOS

I don't miss going to airports and hanging out in hotel rooms.
BUN E. CARLOS

We've elected a new leader, now let's heal.
CARLOS E. GALINDO

My people are suffering and their leaders continue to profit.
CARLOS E. GALINDO

Mi Pueblo Primero!!!!
CARLOS E. GALINDO

If your vote is your voice for change, then your letter is your pleading for reform. We must unite a...
CARLOS E. GALINDO

La lucha continua............
CARLOS E. GALINDO

As a radio talk show host I have learned a valuable lesson. Keep your mouth shut.
CARLOS E. GALINDO

Stop the bleeding, stop the attack on the Immigrant community
CARLOS E. GALINDO

To visit www.carlosgalindo.com is to become informed of the Immigrant's struggle.
CARLOS E. GALINDO

Un pueblo informado jamás será engañado
CARLOS E. GALINDO

One sign in the hands of one person can have a much more reaching effect on society than hundreds of...
CARLOS E. GALINDO

Quoting is verbal plagiarism.
CARLOS E. GALINDO

Make no mistake, we all would like to be successful; some of us just need the right guidance
CARLOS E JARVIS SR.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
WENDY CARLOS

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca...
WENDY CARLOS

Composition has almost always been solitary.
WENDY CARLOS

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
WENDY CARLOS

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
CARLOS SANTANA

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the whi...
CARLOS FUENTES

Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
CARLOS WALLACE

We continue to be bullish on China.
CARLOS GHOSN

First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bou...
CARLOS SLIM

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you ar...
CARLOS SLIM

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a co...
CARLOS SLIM

We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the ...
CARLOS SLIM

You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment....
CARLOS SLIM

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and...
CARLOS SLIM

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more...
CARLOS SLIM

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
CARLOS SLIM

Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about the...
CARLOS SLIM

There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
CARLOS SLIM

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architect...
CARLOS SLIM

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
CARLOS SLIM

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of al...
CARLOS SLIM

Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sp...
CARLOS SLIM

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping other...
CARLOS SLIM

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I c...
CARLOS SLIM

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are ...
CARLOS SLIM

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technolog...
CARLOS SLIM

You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
CARLOS SLIM

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give bette...
CARLOS SLIM

The biggest things in life are not materials.
CARLOS SLIM

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting t...
CARLOS SANTANA

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, beca...
CARLOS SANTANA

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to...
CARLOS SANTANA

Stay in your heart.
CARLOS SANTANA

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring...
CARLOS SANTANA

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
CARLOS SANTANA

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
CARLOS SANTANA

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated ...
CARLOS SANTANA

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, la...
CARLOS SANTANA

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
CARLOS SANTANA

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and ...
CARLOS SANTANA

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a ...
CARLOS SANTANA

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
CARLOS SANTANA

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an...
CARLOS SANTANA

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now...
CARLOS SANTANA

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, ...
CARLOS SANTANA

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smili...
CARLOS SANTANA

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
CARLOS SANTANA

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with ...
CARLOS SANTANA

I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most day...
CARLOS PONCE

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physi...
CARLOS PONCE

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
CARLOS PONCE

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
CARLOS PONCE

I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We'...
CARLOS PONCE

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
CARLOS PONCE

I have reached a limit in my work.
CARLOS MESA

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia'...
CARLOS MESA

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed...
CARLOS MESA

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
CARLOS MESA

I want Bolivians to support their president.
CARLOS MESA

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel commi...
CARLOS MESA

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
CARLOS MESA

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizi...
CARLOS MESA

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
CARLOS MESA

There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their suc...
CARLOS GHOSN

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of product...
CARLOS GHOSN

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is no...
CARLOS GHOSN

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next ...
CARLOS GHOSN

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a prof...
CARLOS GHOSN

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going glo...
CARLOS GHOSN

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
CARLOS GHOSN

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
CARLOS GHOSN

When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want...
CARLOS GHOSN

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to ...
CARLOS GHOSN

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different...
CARLOS GHOSN

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much m...
CARLOS GHOSN

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opin...
CARLOS GHOSN

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you...
CARLOS GHOSN

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
CARLOS GHOSN

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
CARLOS GHOSN

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
CARLOS GHOSN

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv...
CARLOS GHOSN

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvem...
CARLOS GHOSN

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
CARLOS GHOSN

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
CARLOS FUENTES

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on...
CARLOS FUENTES

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the write...
CARLOS FUENTES

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
CARLOS FUENTES

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al...
CARLOS FUENTES

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
CARLOS FUENTES

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t...
CARLOS FUENTES

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty...
CARLOS FUENTES

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic na...
CARLOS FUENTES

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human righ...
CARLOS FUENTES

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to dea...
CARLOS FUENTES

I love having critics for breakfast.
CARLOS FUENTES

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
CARLOS FUENTES

Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.

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Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.

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