Parker Conrad Quotes

I don't know anything about Amazon's culture; I've never worked there.

Parker Conrad

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• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • motivation
  • Revenge

• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Hands
  • Smile
  • Profound

• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
  • New
  • New York
  • Week

• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Thought

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Person
  • Profession
  • Ambitious

• I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Good
  • Never
  • Anything

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Liberty
  • Price
  • Cost

• The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Embrace
  • Older

• All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Friends
  • American
  • Man

• I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Government
  • Tired
  • Media

• Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Religions

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Character
  • Grow

• You can have the best riff in the world, but if the drums behind it just ain't vibing it, it's not gonna be the greatest riff, right? So you've gotta have someone there that can really bring that to life.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Life
  • World

• The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.

  

  Steve Earle
  • World
  • Country
  • Culture

• In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

  

  Anna Camp
  • Mind

• I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Country
  • Party

• I don't know anything about Amazon's culture; I've never worked there.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Culture