Christopher Parker Quotes
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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I'm still me even after all that's happened.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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Honestly, 'Battlestar' is a truly unique thing, and it's hard for anything to step up to that. There aren't often shows that are as good as that.
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Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
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We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
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Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.
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The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.
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I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.
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'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.
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I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
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I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.
