Leo Kottke Quotes
I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Women are sacred.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
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A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.
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I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.
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I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.
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I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.
