Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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  • Pretentious

• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Know
  • Like
  • Songs

• Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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  • Boring

• If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

  

  Barry Mann
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  • Get

• As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
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• In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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  • Comfortable

• Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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  • Society
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• I have a relatively good track record.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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  • Rock

• My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

  

  Patricia Polacco
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• It's a crazy experience for me to be in a Foo Fighters video.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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  • Crazy

• I'm the queen of the independent video!

  

  Kari Wuhrer
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• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

  

  Aleister Crowley
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  • Stop

• I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

  

  Joanna Lumley
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• I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.

  

  Donald Glover
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  • Thinking
  • Song

• So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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• There DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read them had the power of a long piece, but they were prose, and they had the power of poetry, in that the last line wasn't the end, it was a reverberation, like when you tap on a glass made of crystal, and it goes ping.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
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• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• My brother and I are always playing F1 on the PlayStation and now I am going to be in one of those cars on the games!

  

  Lewis Hamilton
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  • Games
  • Playstation

• Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?

  

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