Kurt Elling Quotes

You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about.

Kurt Elling

• Life
• Time
• God
• Opportunity

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• I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Important
  • Children

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Happy
  • Artist
  • Serious

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

  

  Halle Berry
  • World
  • Mother
  • Myself

• I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Different
  • Career
  • Earth

• I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Difference
  • Second Place

• Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Princess

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Yourself

• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Dead

• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Help
  • Accepting

• I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Style
  • Pushing
  • Original

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Hands
  • Forget
  • Blood

• Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Change
  • Wall
  • President

• Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Religion
  • Search

• As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Talk
  • Wear
  • Soon

• I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Country
  • Know

• I really love Philadelphia and all of the fans, my teammates, the front office, the organization, everybody. I know I'm going to miss them. I really appreciate everything we did together. On the other side, I am happy because I have a chance to go to the playoffs. Another opportunity, maybe, to go to the World Series.

  

  Carlos Ruiz
  • World
  • Together
  • Happy

• I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

  

  Stephanie Klein
  • Health
  • Moments
  • Losing

• God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • God
  • Family
  • Dream

• The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Life
  • Animal

• You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Life
  • Time
  • God