Mark Parker Quotes
One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
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Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language.
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Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.
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I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
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One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.
