Kurt Elling Quotes

I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me time and again and said, 'Hey, young fella, you're one of us. Come with us.' That's a big deal when you're young and looking for your way in the world.

Kurt Elling

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We need a system that provides mortgage credit in good times and bad to a broad range of creditworthy borrowers.

Jerome Powell

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Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.

Andrew Cuomo

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Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

Robert Gottlieb

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Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

Trey Parker

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I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.

MaryJanice Davidson

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If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.

Michael Keaton

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The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.

Michael Mandelbaum

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If you go around Colombia or Latin America, without doubt you will find that 80 per cent of the time, you're discussing the past and only 20 per cent about the future.

Juan Manuel Santos

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Although I'm very competitive, I'm also very critical of myself.

Devon Cajuste

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When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, dummy,' or 'Hey, Mayhem.'

Dean Winters

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Films are like oxygen for me.

Anurag Kashyap

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My father's Alfred Newman - born in 1900, child prodigy at the piano, ended up in pit orchestras in the teens. I think he's one of the youngest conductors to conduct Broadway and worked with George Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Cole Porter - went out with Irvin Berlin in 1930 to Hollywood and never left.

Thomas Newman

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