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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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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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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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
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Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.
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I remember when I was in film school. It was my second year, and some kid did - had this really over-religious symbolism; like, it said 'John 3:16' and had angels falling over, and it was just this insane - it wasn't that great.
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I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.
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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.
