Kiesa Rae Ellestad (Kiesza) Quotes

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

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• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Care
  • Elected

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • saw
  • Six
  • Pilot

• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Focus
  • Safety
  • Uncertainty

• After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Day

• The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Biology

• The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • American
  • Law
  • Professional

• All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Soul
  • Always
  • Old

• My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Character
  • Job

• I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Movies
  • Loved
  • Finding

• I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Art
  • Action
  • Watch

• Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Practice

• Grosser light vanishes into eternal raysOf all-pervading Cosmic Joy.From Joy we come,For Joy we live,In the sacred Joy we melt.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Live
  • Light
  • Joy

• The awful bottom line, of course, is that if you’re going to rule the world, you have to have absolute power, and everybody knows what absolute power does.

  

  Kage Baker
  • World
  • Power

• Our economy has become completely different, on the whole. The size has changed. The economy has almost doubled in size. And the quality is changing, not as fast as we would like it to, but the structure is changing. Our Armed Forces are completely different today from what they were, say 15 years ago or so. All of this, including our great history, great culture, all of this, not just what we see today, is what makes the vast majority of Russia's citizens feel proud for their country.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Culture

• I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Thinking
  • Death

• Safety from feeling shamed, admonished, or judged, and to bolster the courage to tolerate, face, and process the reality of what has happened.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Reality
  • Safety
  • Judged

• When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Sex
  • Teenager
  • Flattering

• When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad