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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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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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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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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I said to one of them, 'Look after the baby, I've got washing,' because we've got washable nappies. I said, 'Look after the baby. Entertain her, do some words,' because she's saying words, 'Do any words.' So I came back after I scraped all the stuff off, and he was going, 'Say, ‘Wigan Athletic!’'
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Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.
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No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.
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Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
