Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

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• I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Responsible
  • Cricket
  • Indian

• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Moon
  • Solar

• Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • True
  • Political
  • Law

• Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Life
  • Revolution
  • Continue

• I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Happy
  • Brother
  • Dating

• I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Me
  • Competition

• You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • You
  • Confident
  • Beast

• In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Science

• But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Why

• Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • May

• Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

  

  Jane Goodall

• Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Right
  • Jobs
  • Create

• The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.

  

  Jens Stoltenberg
  • People
  • Experience
  • Culture

• I design for social media. My customer reads blogs, is on social media, so I design with contrast in mind. An all-black shirt looks good on the shelf but not online.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Black

• With eating well, there's a perception that it's depressing. People think they're just going to meditate and eat kale.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • People
  • Perception

• I needed to see if I could have fun in a project again, and 'Riverdale' was a project that ended up looking like a tonne of fun.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Up
  • Fun

• If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Music

• I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • War
  • Guy

• I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Up
  • Great
  • Nice

• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Nature
  • Secret
  • Angels

• You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • World
  • Rebel

• When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Script

• Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

  

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