Kurt Elling Quotes
At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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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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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.
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What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of?
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At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
