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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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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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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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.
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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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We need to show the fact that when you start thinking about freedom and liberty, personal responsibility, and opportunity to achieve the American Dream, the Republican party is the best party to do that.
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Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.
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If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.
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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
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When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.
