In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
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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 Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handin... 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 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. 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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