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

• 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

• 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

• In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

  

  Eduardo Galeano
  • Science
  • Law
  • Coffee

• I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.

  

  Kunal Nayyar
  • Together
  • Chocolate

• The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional problems as well as the military problems that have been unaddressed for centuries.

  

  John Reid KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Good
  • History
  • Military

• You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Actor

• Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state's or the society's.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Business
  • Society

• An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Question
  • Answer

• 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