Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
I've talked about that with friends, about what genre makes sense to choose for each record and the strategy around that... Sometimes it's more about the moment of time, and other times it's more about the sound of the song. Sometimes it's about what's going on in larger life, in politics.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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We still talk to this day. We had a real close relationship and used to hang out as friends and everything. It's fun seeing them before and after the game, seeing how they've progressed and developed in college.
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No man knows what he can do until he tries.
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I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
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I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).
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I've talked about that with friends, about what genre makes sense to choose for each record and the strategy around that... Sometimes it's more about the moment of time, and other times it's more about the sound of the song. Sometimes it's about what's going on in larger life, in politics.
