Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes
I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.
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Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
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Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
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I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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The moment I realised anyone could be watching - and this is going to sound so name-droppy - was when Ricky Martin reached out to me on Coming Out Day 2012. The Internet has this massive potential, and you can never know the effect you might have on others by just being yourself.
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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
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The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.
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There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.
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I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.
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Pay-Per-View is run by drama. It is. It's true. I've done the research for myself. You look at Jon Jones. When Jon Jones fought Machida, probably did about $200,000, $300,000. When he fought Cormier, they made, like, $875,000.
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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
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I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.
