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

• Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Say
  • Fan
  • Horror

• 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

• There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Literature
  • Ability

• I love acting since I was little girl. I went to school for it; that's all I worked on. That's all I prepared for.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • School
  • Girl

• Our guys played perfect basketball over the last three minutes. The first game of a tournament is a little tougher, but we handled it. We got through it, and now we know we need to play a great 40 minutes for a chance to go to the NCAA Tournament.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Basketball
  • Played
  • Tournament

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

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos