Kurt Elling Quotes
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
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I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
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A thriller is supposed to thrill you! So it's the plotting of the movie and the unveiling of the story which is important.
Nastassja Kinski -
With support from techies, designers, artists and thousands of activists across the country, Black Lives Matter is now an online-to-offline political movement, affirming the humanity and resilience of black communities.
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I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
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With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.
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I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.
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I'm a goof, man.
