Kurt Elling Quotes
I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.Kurt Elling
Quotes to Explore
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill -
I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
Zoe Kravitz -
Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
Natasha Little -
All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
F. Murray Abraham -
For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
Maiwenn -
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
Hamza Yusuf
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
Leighton Paul Walsh -
People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
Gary Lineker -
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
Cab Calloway -
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite -
Both should share the same concept of what a relationship means and the same energy to believe in a monogamous relationship.
Irina Shayk -
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
Wally Lamb
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey -
Not being boring is quite a challenge.
Ian Mcewan -
Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail is unlike any other performance venue in the world, set with mountains and trees as a backdrop.
Damian Woetzel -
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
Salman Rushdie -
I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
Fernando Pessoa
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My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.
Wynonna Judd -
To be honest, I haven't even seen the film yet. Tobey, if you're reading this, I apologize.
Eliza Dushku -
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
Francis Bacon -
So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
Mika -
Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.
Peter Morgan -
I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.
Kurt Elling