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.

  

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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.

  

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• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

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

  

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• It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

  

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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.'

  

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• I am definitely going to college!

  

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• You can never overlook a guy.

  

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• An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.

  

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• Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

  

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• It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.

  

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• I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.

  

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• 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