Joel Parkinson Quotes

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• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Good
  • Daily

• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movies
  • Discover
  • Observer

• I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • America
  • Want
  • Decide

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Pleasure

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Work Hard

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Find

• Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

  

  Larry David
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Character
  • Driving

• I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Think
  • Human
  • Profound

• Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Job
  • Mirror

• However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Free
  • Problem
  • Travel

• You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Love
  • Think
  • Person

• Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I spend a lot of time on my music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Spend

• I guess they still show the movie in school, so around the time of movie showing, my Facebook inbox and my Instagram DM is flooded. "Are you the Quindon Tarver from the movie Romeo + Juliet? Oh my god, you did a great job."

  

  Quindon Tarver
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

  

  Brian May Queen

• I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Children
  • Cry
  • Away

• I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Life
  • God
  • Thinking

• I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.

  

  Mena Grabowski Trott
  • Amazing
  • Moments
  • Bloggers

• Anything can happen at Pipeline; it's one of those waves where the most amazing wave can come through in one minute, and then nothing can happen for an hour.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Amazing
  • Waves