Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
Fat Joe
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
Lara St. John
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
Vanessa Carlton
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
Yoko Ono
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
Naomi Klein
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
Eddie Marsan
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
Kate Levering
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
Garth Ennis
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I told myself that if I went to Compton High, and I made something out of the school, it would mean something to me later down the line because I started everything. And future kids would say, 'DeMar made it here; why can't I?' I wanted to stay home.
DeMar DeRozan
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
John Quincy Adams
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I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
E. Lockhart
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I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.
William H. Gass
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The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions