Keith Ellison Quotes
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I know about raising money.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.
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The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
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C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.
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I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.
