Leo Kottke Quotes
I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
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Personality-wise, I'm a person who likes to put it all out on the table.
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
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The church is the chief place for spiritual edification and growth (Acts 20:32; Eph. 4:11-16; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 1 Pet. 2:1-2; 2 Pet. 3:18).
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The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.
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I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.
