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 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

• 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

• I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.

  

  Kesha
  • Fun
  • Hope

• I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

  

  David Lynch The Platters

• The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • May
  • Hand

• When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.

  

  Bobby Locke
  • Up

• Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Ideas
  • Prison

• I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Inspiration
  • Rap

• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Money

• After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

  

  Kang Chol-hwan
  • War
  • True
  • Listening

• The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?

  

  J. Budziszewski
  • Enough
  • Judging
  • Morality

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

  

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