Kurtis Blow (Kurtis Walke) Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
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On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.
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I hope to spend more time with my family.
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I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.
