Kurt Elling Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I want to have a long career.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.
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People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.
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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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There are incredible musicians around the world.
