Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.
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I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people: finding waste, or money that is not being properly used... or finding opportunities that are out there and making them work for the community.
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They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
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I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part.
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Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
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I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life. What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life.
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Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.
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The pictures and dresses and official functions - that's my job, but it's not my whole life.
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In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation, the growing appreciation of love, has the effect of reducing our inclination towards hatred and increasing our respect for love. By this means even anger can be diminished.
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There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?
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I would love to do an album of standards!
