Maceo Parker Quotes
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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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'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.
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I would hope that the future would have an international community that's not just bent on commerce, but that's focused on refugees, of all kinds and from all places. We don't know that won't happen in the U.S. someday. It literally could be a crisis from climate change, or anything. I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
