Kurt Elling Quotes
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
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I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It’s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It’s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It’s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.
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I try not to get too self-absorbed.
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When you find what you love, and you find people that will support you, you're living the dream whatever you do.
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I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
