Leo Kottke Quotes
It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.
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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
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I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.
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Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
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It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.
