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 don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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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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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Δικαιοσύνης καρπὸς μέγιστος ἀταραξία.
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I never met anyone before who made me feel the way music makes me feel.
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Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
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It took him 45 minutes to say his prayers in the morning. He mentioned everyone by name and his concerns with them. He had to schedule time to pray because he didn't feel it appropriate to just mention them as a group.
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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.
