Kurt Elling Quotes

Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene.

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• I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
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• I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

  

  Ted Stevens
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• I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.

  

  Ice T
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• Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
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• I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.

  

  Patricia Riggen
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• The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• Understand that nutrition plays a huge role in athletes' lives, and one of the most nutritious ways to eat is to cook your own food.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
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• Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.

  

  David B. Coe
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• It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.

  

  Chris Milk
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• If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
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• Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene.

  

  Kurt Elling
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