Joel Parkinson Quotes
I've been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
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You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.
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I've been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.
