Kurt Elling Quotes
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.
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Living such an opaque life has forced me never to take transparency, openness, and honesty for granted.
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Money alone sets all the world in motion.
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I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.
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To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I've got friends that are actors. They're interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there's a part of me that doesn't like it.
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Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work.
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I don't want to take it easy.
