Leo Kottke Quotes

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

Leo Kottke

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• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

  

  Feist
  • Myself
  • First
  • Living

• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • My Own

• Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Writing
  • Red
  • Act

• One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Most
  • Talented
  • Brian

• I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Think
  • Success
  • Lost

• Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Job
  • Hope

• I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Having
  • Tendency
  • Vigilant

• I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Know
  • Style
  • Performance

• At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Period

• In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Why
  • Enemy

• All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Water

• Whether elected or appointedHe considers himself the Lord's annointed,And indeed the ointment lingers on himSo thick you can't get your fingers on him.

  

  Ogden Nash

• DIRECTIONS FOR USING: For THINKING:-Wind the Clockwork Man under his left arm, (marked No. 1). For SPEAKING:-Wind the Clockwork Man under his right arm, (marked No. 2). For WALKING and ACTION:-Wind Clockwork Man in the middle of his back, (marked No. 3). N. B.-This Mechanism is guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Action

• In my opinion, a life governed by reason is likely to be more dignified than one shaped by dogma and unbridled emotions.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Life
  • Opinion

• I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Fact

• Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Novel

• You try to make a film, and you have to come up with the money. You need a big crew; you need to ask people for favors and get permission. If you have an idea for a song, you can pretty much go into your basement with your band mates and do it.

  

  Bob Casale
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

  

  Charles Krauthammer

• I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

  

  Leo Kottke