Kurt Elling Quotes
It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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Before training, I eat slow-release energy food, such as porridge or muesli, especially in the morning. Afterwards, I eat protein so my muscles are able to recover, such as a protein bar followed by a meal of chicken and vegetables. I always stay hydrated during workouts by drinking plenty of water throughout.
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My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
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When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.
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The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
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We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
