Jamie Parker Quotes

Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.

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• There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Dance
  • Find
  • Look

• The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Time
  • Women
  • Career

• It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Culture
  • Books
  • Hip Hop

• I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mistake
  • Try
  • Blame

• My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Up
  • Man
  • Me

• I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Want
  • Hungry

• Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Advice

• Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Technology
  • Religion
  • Values

• Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Technology
  • Play
  • Role

• I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Home
  • See

• Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Privacy

• I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Want
  • Star
  • Might

• The poor didn’t have them and so the rich flaunted them, the larger and more conspicuous the better.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • American
  • Father

• 'Luchadores, mil mascaras'... a thousand masks. I see a lot of those in Jets colors. And then the Hispanic fans of other teams, they'll wear them in their colors. And they're like, 'You're our guy, Sanchez, but I'm a Steelers fan.'

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Guy

• But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Time
  • Focus

• I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

  

  David Bergen
  • Imagination
  • Boy

• I design therefore I become.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Design

• I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Style
  • Singing

• We live in a fearful society that has perfected the art of doubting, weaned us on worry, and trained us to focus on everything that can or has gone wrong.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Live
  • Art
  • Society

• How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Ends
  • Used
  • Alright

• I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.

  

  Jamie Parker