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.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
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• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
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• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.

  

  Pat Riley
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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.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • You
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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.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Support
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• My own death threats have declined considerably.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Death
  • Own
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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.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Friends
  • Light
  • Church

• 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.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Failure

• I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Hope

• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Dog

• 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.

  

  Tyler Oakley

• 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.

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • Money
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  • Commitment

• The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • People

• In my regular life, I don't really wear much makeup unless I'm going out.

  

  Bianca Lawson
  • Life
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• We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

  

  Mark V. Hurd

• Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Damage

• Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Alcohol
  • Solutions
  • Remains

• Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

  

  Bernie Siegel
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  • Thinking

• But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Thinking
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  • Deals

• 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.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Thinking
  • Spirituality
  • Devotion