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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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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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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You don't always have to be a leader and be as vocal as I am. I'm sure some people would love it if I didn't talk as much as I did.
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I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.
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Sometimes you just don't know what to say.
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I lot of people remember when that kid spray-painted my brand new Porsche for Punk'd. That was pretty funny. He got me pretty good. Of course, most people don't know I eventually got him back with my own show. I call it a show, really it's just an hour-long video shot in my bedroom featuring the two of us.
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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.
