Kurt Elling Quotes

I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits.

Kurt Elling

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• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Work
  • Know
  • Training

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • World
  • Respect

• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Language

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Change
  • Husband

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Earth
  • Promise
  • Hell

• It's not my style to judge anybody.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Style
  • Judge
  • Anybody

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Exist

• Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the world.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • World
  • Rest

• As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Rationalize
  • American Lives

• If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Live
  • Heart

• In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Long

• There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • World
  • Different
  • Groups

• I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Intuition