Leo Kottke Quotes
It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.
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The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.
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It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.
