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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I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'
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I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.
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You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.
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As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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.
