Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
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The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)
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In the early years of Rent the Runway, our challenge was twofold: getting investors to buy into our vision for how the world was changing and getting women to understand that renting was a viable - let alone a smarter - alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on dresses they would wear just once.
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I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.
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Talk is cheap, let's go play.
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Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
