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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Not really. I don't even have enough time to pursue everything I want to do musically. Also, there's a lot of people out there who spend a lot of time trying to act, so I think most of the good acting jobs should be reserved for those people.
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I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.
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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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I always go heavy and I always go to failure.
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My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad.
