Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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I want to have a long career.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
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I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.
