Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

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• I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Money
  • Power

• It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • You
  • Unique
  • Clothes

• I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Husband
  • Idea
  • Kid

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Inspire

• One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Mind
  • Picture
  • Emotional

• Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Home

• I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

  

  Little Richard
  • Gentleman
  • Much

• The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Words
  • Angels
  • Bully

• You have to feel good about yourself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Feels
  • Feel Good

• I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Theory

• Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Real
  • May
  • Past

• Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • People
  • Environment
  • Human

• Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

  

  Aulus Gellius
  • Cup
  • Lip

• Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Experience
  • American
  • Baseball

• We want the whole list on the table, and completely, before the election, ... Anything else would be enormous election deception.

  

  Edmund Stoiber
  • Election
  • Deception
  • Table

• I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Wind
  • Solitude

• You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

  

  Molly Crabapple
  • Reality
  • Interesting
  • Things

• Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

  

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