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.

  

  Early Wynn
  • More
  • Losing
  • Salesman

• 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.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Real
  • Love
  • Connection

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Life
  • Childhood

• 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.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Child
  • Story
  • Logic

• 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.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Time
  • Me
  • First

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Long
  • Art
  • Strong

• He who gives love, receives love.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Attention
  • First
  • Presidential

• Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

  Sam Childers
  • America
  • Bad
  • Want

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Country
  • Meeting

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Love
  • Science

• The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Mystery
  • Greatest

• Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Convincing
  • Happy Endings

• If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Live
  • Heart

• I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Different
  • Financial
  • Rules

• I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Pretty
  • Independent
  • Lawyer