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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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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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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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
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Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
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I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.
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I want to have an empire. I like being in front of the camera, performing - but I would like to get to a place where I'm also executive producing and bringing other people along. People of all different walks of life, highlighting their voices.
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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.
