Andrew Kohut Quotes
We still live in a time where people feel threatened, and the Democrats have been at a disadvantage on this issue, and for them to make progress they have to address it.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.
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In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.
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Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.
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Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
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If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
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And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation.
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I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.
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Toronto's a delightful city.
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As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.
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We still live in a time where people feel threatened, and the Democrats have been at a disadvantage on this issue, and for them to make progress they have to address it.
