Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

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• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Moving
  • Look
  • September

• Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Way
  • Africa
  • Middle East

• I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Ashamed
  • Lady
  • Argue

• So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Long
  • Done
  • Cold

• Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Done
  • Me
  • Television

• When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Support
  • Nice
  • Radio

• The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Strong
  • Rights

• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

  

  Ed Koch
  • God
  • Moment
  • Hands

• I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Together
  • Help

• I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Thoughts

• My body and my will are one.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• We have brought a peace, and we trust we have brought a peace with honour, and I trust that that will now be followed by the prosperity of the country.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Trust

• Reason is lost reasoning.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Lost

• A lot of people might sit back and watch Dominick Cruz doing his footwork, and say, 'Oh, Dominick Cruz just dancing around, and he runs away.' It's a totally different atmosphere until you get in there, and you actually experience it.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

  

  Elizabeth Kenny
  • Time
  • World
  • Dark

• For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Crazy

• American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

  

  Corey Clark
  • Truth
  • American
  • Lies

• Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

  

  Alfred Delp
  • Today
  • Song
  • Reality

• I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been ever to achieve, doing anything else. It's where I feel most myself. I can access my power and strength, as an artist, and I can't imagine not doing it. I love it!

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Artist

• There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Trust
  • Writer
  • Read

• Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Technology
  • Radio
  • Eaten

• It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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