Kurt Elling Quotes
I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a white tux, and I thought, 'That would be good. To be the only man on stage in a white jacket.'
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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I learned this from Mike Wallace. Listen, be a good listener. You don't have to fill space. Just sit there and listen.
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You'll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitchen and asked for a picture with me. That was flattering.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a white tux, and I thought, 'That would be good. To be the only man on stage in a white jacket.'
