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

• What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Built
  • Blossom

• 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 really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.

  

  W. Heath Robinson
  • Health
  • Mad
  • Secret

• 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

• I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• 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

• Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Good
  • Poor
  • Adoration

• And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.

  

  Adele Griffin
  • Power
  • Magic
  • Shut

• I think I want to stick to jewelry. Perfumes are for the bigger media stars, and I think that works well for them. I don't think you have to be a big star to have a jewelry line; if something's pretty, I think people will want to buy it.

  

  Eva LaRue
  • Stars
  • I Think
  • Works

• You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Quality
  • Unique
  • Break

• 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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  • Checks
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