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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I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.
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There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.
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I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
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You have antiheroes in dramas, like Tony Soprano. But it's a little bit harder in comedy. You don't see it quite as much.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
