Kurt Elling Quotes

Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.

Kurt Elling

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• Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Talk
  • Been
  • Tax

• Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Important
  • Job
  • Wealth

• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • American
  • Jews

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Want
  • You
  • Play

• And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Character
  • Study

• I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Think
  • Way
  • Running

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Good
  • Control
  • Passion

• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Everything
  • Possible
  • Begins

• My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Job
  • Food
  • King

• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Feel

• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • You
  • Will
  • Saying

• I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Me

• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Men
  • Art
  • Nature

• I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Band
  • Chicago
  • Veteran

• If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Positive

• I actually think most people do what they love because it's really important to them.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • People
  • Important

• I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

  

  Mary Pope Osborne
  • Time
  • Past
  • Reading

• Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Chicago
  • Relax