Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.

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• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Death

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• I usually sleep just a few hours a night.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Hours

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • Lost

• I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Stupid
  • Said
  • Islam

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Lost

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • Try
  • Now

• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Water

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Political

• My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kids

• I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Rights

• Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

  

  David Rakoff
  • World
  • Help

• A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

  

  David Augsburger
  • People
  • Trust
  • Commitment

• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Help

• I happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also for Russia moving towards the West. Because it will become a logical extension of the same process, and it will eliminate any imperial ambitions.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Ambition

• Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.

  

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