Kurt Elling Quotes
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I'm not graceful.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
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We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terror activity anywhere.
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It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
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I suppose I've been very fortunate in terms of my longevity and my voice and the way it has held up over the years. I hope to be able to keep on doing what I'm doing until I can't do it anymore.
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... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
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I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.
