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

• 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

• 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

• I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Warrior

• It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Great
  • God
  • Jesus

• I can govern by bringing people together. And also, I've been tested in a way no one else has. I was governor on September 11th, and I'm proud of my leadership in bringing New York through that time. And when I left, we were stronger, we were safer, and we were more united than at any time in my lifetime.

  

  George Pataki
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Illusion

• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Child
  • Interest
  • Labor

• (He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Money

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

  

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