Kurt Elling Quotes
I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.
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People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a rapper. Then again, to be fair, in China I look like a rapper.
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I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.
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I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.
