Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
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The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.
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The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.
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[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
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A body in movement is its philosophy.
