Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes

When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.

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• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • People
  • Music
  • Speak

• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
  • Will

• Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Maybe
  • Arena
  • Insecurities

• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • God
  • Liberal
  • Suggestions

• Horror movies can be - I don't wanna say not real, but so over-the-top: you can get scared 'cos things are loud and in-your-face, but these are real emotions that I'm using.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Real
  • Movies
  • Emotions

• I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Love
  • Sports
  • Acting

• Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.

  

  Wale
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Making

• It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Decision

• Language is the dress of thought.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Language
  • Thought
  • Dress

• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • War
  • Peace
  • Last

• The only people who object to escapism are jailers.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People

• Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • May
  • High
  • Beautiful

• The biblical times have come back again, the great invasions of the Medes and the Persians. Has the world, then, reached the point where it deserves to be punished for the egotistical epicureanism in which it has slumbered?

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • World
  • Great

• The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Work

• You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.

  

  Danny Meyer

• I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Different
  • Parents

• My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Attitude
  • Optimistic

• The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I'm pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don't believe we're alone.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Life
  • Age

• Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Feeling

• The truth is, I just love to work. I love being on set. I love being around crews. I love being around my fellow actors. Anything that can keep that going is a joy for me.

  

  Jaime Ray Newman
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Joy

• About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

  

  Anson Mount
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Distance

• No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Live
  • Heart

• When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos