Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

Hip is to know, it's a form of intelligence. To be hip is to be update and relevant. Hop is a form of movement, you can't just observe a hop, you gotta hop up and do it. Hip and hop is more than music Hip is the Knowledge, hop is the Movement. Hip and Hop is Intelligent movement

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• The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Long
  • Children

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Spiritual
  • Positive
  • Driven

• There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Doing
  • Movies

• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Find

• The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Honor

• I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • History
  • Amazing

• I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Years
  • Army
  • Combat

• When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • School
  • Play
  • Down

• There's nothing good about divorce.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Divorce

• CH: Have you told many fibs today? M: I lie a lot - it's really useful - but everything I've said today has been the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me... er... Trevor...

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Today

• I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Book
  • Remember

• The Righteous Brothers started out in Orange County, California. It was about the whitest place in the country, but the black marines from the nearby base heard there were two guys singing rhythm and blues, so they came down to hear us. At the end of our songs they'd yell out, 'That's righteous, brother!' and that's how we got our name.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Country
  • Black
  • Singing

• Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.

  

  Win Butler
  • Good
  • Music
  • Interesting

• I still have a crush on Johnny Depp, and I literally only started dating my husband because he looked like Johnny Depp - and he knows that. We've been together for twelve years, and he still looks like Johnny Depp.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Together
  • Husband
  • Dating

• My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

  

  Big Smo
  • Life
  • Music

• I never wanted 'Toy Story 3' to feel like another sequel just grafted on. We all know that if you put 3 after your title, it typically means garbage, and we knew that going in.

  

  Lee Unkrich

• The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Black

• I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Time
  • Past

• The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

  

  Rachel Field
  • Feeling
  • Ambition

• Uh, homes, we are what we are. Black, white, Brown, yellow. Point is don't be ashamed of who you are, man. You wanna call it sterotyping. Hey, This is me, Órale vato, this is who I am. Take me or leave me. You don't like me? Turn around and look the other way. Its that simple.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Man
  • Point
  • Ashamed

• Hip is to know, it's a form of intelligence. To be hip is to be update and relevant. Hop is a form of movement, you can't just observe a hop, you gotta hop up and do it. Hip and hop is more than music Hip is the Knowledge, hop is the Movement. Hip and Hop is Intelligent movement

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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