Kurt Elling Quotes
People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
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Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.
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I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
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So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go ?
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People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.
