Joel Parkinson Quotes
My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Health is never going to go out of fashion.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
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Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants.
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My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad.
