Mark Parker Quotes
I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.
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I'm usually a pretty intense person. Give me an inch, and I'm going to go.
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Everything has a place and time.
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My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.
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I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.
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I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.
