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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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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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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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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When my blood pressure goes up, my Spanish stuff kicks in.
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I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.
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I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?
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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.
