Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes

I know my ticket is vulnerability. Most people point to some emotional experience, some hardship, some high or low when they talk about my music... a time when they need to feel those feelings more.

Kelela Mizanekristos

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • War
  • Cold

• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Working
  • Hard
  • Opportunities

• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Up
  • You
  • Growing

• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Morning
  • Chef

• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Goals

• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Lost

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Anxiety

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • Stand

• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Women
  • Decisions

• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Should
  • Sin

• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Stand
  • Human Rights

• It's just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.

  

  Ciara
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may findThee sitting careless on a granary floor,Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hookSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers.

  

  John Keats
  • May
  • Hair
  • Wind

• How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • People

• When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.

  

  S. Bear Bergman
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• I've done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Theatre

• I know my ticket is vulnerability. Most people point to some emotional experience, some hardship, some high or low when they talk about my music... a time when they need to feel those feelings more.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • People
  • Time
  • Music