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.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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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.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
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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.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
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The only people who object to escapism are jailers.
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Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
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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?
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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!
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You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.
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I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.
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My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
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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.
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No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.
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When you can leave a race track and there's people in tears because they won and (people) in tears because they got crashed, you know, that's what brings us to the race track.
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Even victors are by victories undone.
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I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.
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When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.
