Paul Parker Quotes

Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

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• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Wall
  • Will
  • Street

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Demand
  • Washed

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Long
  • Society
  • Exploring

• I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • School
  • Myself
  • Intelligent

• Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Think
  • Wrong
  • Old

• Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Wealth
  • Development

• I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Money
  • Charity
  • Institution

• We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Get
  • Painful
  • Through

• Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples undermined efforts to consolidate early battlefield gains into lasting security.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Understanding
  • Security

• I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Book
  • Never
  • Number

• I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Up
  • Women
  • School

• One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Truth

• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Wind

• Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Retirement

• The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Why
  • Haters

• The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Science
  • Reading

• Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found common cause in fighting the bigotry both communities faced earlier in the 20th century. However, white skin privilege among the Irish separated them from blacks, who had no such advantage to fall back upon. The solution is to fight bigotry and racism wherever they appear, and to root out the forces of oppression as conscientiously as possible.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Community
  • Fall
  • Fighting

• To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Art
  • True

• Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

  

  Paul Parker
  • Feeling
  • Community
  • Reward