Leo Kottke Quotes
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I get bored easily.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
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This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.
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I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Well, this is something I never thought could possibly happen, to be standing back again, less than one year after having been part of the dissolution of this organization and the changing of the guard, so to speak, and feeling so comfortable stepping back into this position.
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I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.
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I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
