Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

I break an emcee off proper Yo don't check me, Ask your Moms and Pops, Yo they respect me, But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin' You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"

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• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Judge
  • Television
  • Indian

• I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Music
  • Moments

• Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

  

  Adele
  • Beauty
  • Wear

• I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game.

  

  Caitlin Lowe
  • People
  • Game
  • Energy

• I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Funny
  • inspirational
  • Brave

• I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Shows
  • Dancing
  • Vancouver

• An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Help
  • Black
  • Writers

• I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Time
  • Book
  • Stop

• All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • Men
  • Remember

• When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolerant towards her. Believers, who believe something else besides what she teaches, retaliate by attacking her in the very sanctuary itself.

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Political
  • Religion
  • Engine

• I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Moments
  • Afraid
  • Butterflies

• Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Shoot
  • Lip

• When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break the rules to get the villains, and so become villains themselves.

  

  Barrett Brown
  • History
  • Guilty
  • Rules

• Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Habit
  • Break

• When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

  

  Rosemary Clooney
  • Girl
  • Team
  • Said

• I break an emcee off proper Yo don't check me, Ask your Moms and Pops, Yo they respect me, But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin' You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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