Kiesa Rae Ellestad (Kiesza) Quotes
It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.
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Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.
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To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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I love the feeling of putting my feet back on the sand after I've been out in the ocean for a while. I love that. I guess the adrenaline calms down when the sense of balance returns in a really grounded way.
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To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.
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It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.