Kurt Elling Quotes

I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.

Kurt Elling

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• We always go into a game to win.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Game
  • Always
  • Win

• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Like

• The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Alone
  • System

• Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Know

• We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Actor
  • Entertainment
  • Joke

• The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Together
  • Government

• Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Smile

• I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I'm a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Remember
  • Fight
  • Honesty

• I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Life
  • Real
  • Soul

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Believe
  • America
  • Problems

• I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Important
  • Attention

• I love my fans, and I try to keep in touch with them as much as I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Fans
  • Try

• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Player

• It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Dream
  • President
  • Europe

• Jack Benny: We're a little late, so good night, folks.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Good
  • Night

• What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• To be sure he's a 'Man,' the male must see to it that the female be clearly a 'Woman,' the opposite of a 'Man,' that is, the female must act like a faggot. And Daddy's Girl, all of whose female instincts were tromped out of her when little, easily and obligingly adapts herself to the role.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Girl

• Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Thinking
  • Creativity

• The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Freedom
  • Person
  • Idea

• Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • People
  • Moving

• I will always think about uplifting the lives of the poor because I know what they feel. I have not heard about poverty; I have not read about poverty: I have experienced poverty.

  

  Jejomar Binay
  • Poverty
  • Uplifting

• I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.

  

  Kurt Elling