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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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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I'm so happy to have all this support from everyone around the world, and I'm forever thankful for all of them.
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You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.
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And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.
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I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.
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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.
