Kurt Elling Quotes
Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.
Quotes to Explore
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Whatever you're destined to do, you will be.
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I don't care what the depth chart is. I don't care what I'm on. I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to seize every opportunity that I get, because that's the most important thing.
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I'm not really wanting to be famous.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.
