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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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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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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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
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Selfless action is a source of strength.
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I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.
