Kiesa Rae Ellestad (Kiesza) Quotes

I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like I had what it took. I really believed I could do it on my own, so I wanted to try, at least.

Kiesa Rae Ellestad

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• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Never
  • Economic
  • Been

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Fiction

• The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Clock

• My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

  

  Dan Blocker
  • Good
  • Say
  • Ride

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Collaboration

• The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Forest
  • Trees
  • Fires

• 'Twin Peaks' was incredibly slow, methodic, taking shots that were uncomfortably long, with a lot of scenes where there was barely any dialogue. 'Riverdale' has a much faster pace.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Long
  • Dialogue
  • Twin

• My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Never
  • Run
  • Negative

• As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Real

• If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Matter
  • Side
  • Okay

• I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Important
  • Technology
  • motivation

• A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Prince
  • Escape
  • Prudent

• The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • America

• Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had to deal with anything as remotely degrading as stop and frisk. So he has no point of reference.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Guy
  • Sensible
  • Degrading

• Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Individual
  • Gratitude
  • Shame

• I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like I had what it took. I really believed I could do it on my own, so I wanted to try, at least.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad