Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
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We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
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Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
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It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
