Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions

• Mind
• Ability
• Hip Hop
• Uplifting

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
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• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
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• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
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• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
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• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • More
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• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

  Maluma
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  • Ricky

• The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • America
  • Idea
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• It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Great
  • Daughter
  • Parent

• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
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• We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
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• Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Want
  • Day
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• Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.

  

  Yuna
  • Heart
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• I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Live
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• I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Think
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  • Quit

• There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

  

  Tom Berenger
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Pressure
  • Stress

• When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Men
  • America
  • Black

• Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

  

  Babs H. Deal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Think
  • Success
  • Nice

• If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Mind
  • Ability
  • Hip Hop