Bill Kurtis Quotes
I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
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I would absolutely be interested in doing a Broadway production if it was the right project. But my dream is to be writing pieces of theater for my best friends and putting on plays in New York City and seeing our vision come alive. I just hope to always be creating.
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The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political asylum was summarily rejected by U.S. immigration officials, while at the same time the U.S. admitted thousands of Cubans as refugees and political asylees.
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The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.
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I'd much rather leave £2bn to charity, or £3bn or £4bn, than £1bn. That is my motivation to carry on working as hard as I do.
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I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.
