Christopher Parker Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
-
My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
-
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
-
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
-
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
-
I'm still me even after all that's happened.
-
Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.
-
I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping - insurance agencies, nonprofits - and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn't even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.
-
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
-
The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
-
All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.
-
I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.
