Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
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Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.
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Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
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I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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Imagine a man when it all beganThe pilot of 'Enola Gay'Flying out of the shockwave on that August dayAll the powers that be, and the course of historyWould be changed forevermore - Manhattan Project (1985)
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By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.
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Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
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I've wanted to be a professional actor for years and if you get any sort of success in that field then fame sort of comes along with it. But I don't know if I'm sort of media fodder like other people are. I'm essentially a family man.
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Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
