Kurt Elling Quotes
I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
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If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.
