Ruston Kelly (Ruston Samuel Kelly) Quotes
Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world and, through observation, make sense of the world.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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I'm a country girl at heart.
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I never want any problems with anybody in this world.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
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I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world and, through observation, make sense of the world.
