Kurt Elling Quotes
You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.
Kurt Elling
Quotes to Explore
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I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
Zooey Deschanel
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
Taraji P. Henson
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
Jack L. Chalker
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
Madison Smartt Bell
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
LaToya Jackson
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Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.
Dan Gelber
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
Sammy Hagar
Van Halen
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu
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We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.
Eden Hazard
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I usually don't really have breakfast.
Wendy Kopp
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Outside, the main doors behind him, he was hit full in the chest by autumn. The doggy wind leapt about him and nipped; leaves skirred along the pavement, the scrape of the ferrules of sticks; melancholy, that tetrasyllable, sat on a plinth in the middle of the square. English autumn, and the whistling tiny souls of the dead round the war memorial.
Anthony Burgess
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What if I am an aficionado of bullfights and I think, contrary to the animal cruelty people, that they ennoble both beast and man. I would not be able to market videos showing people how exciting a bullfight.
Antonin Scalia
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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?
Marcus Aurelius
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When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.
James Norton
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You're starting to see a lot of fighters, like, 'We want more money so we can be able to retire eventually,' instead of, we get to 30 years old, and we're like, 'Alright, I think Costco has openings.'
Demetrious Johnson
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It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
Pitbull
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I'm turning this industry around and making clothing that we've been wanting and needing.
Ashley Nell Tipton
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim
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Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
Bill Gates
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Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.
Adam Rayner
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If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.
Bill Gates
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The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.
Bob Mondello
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You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.
Kurt Elling
