William Parks Quotes
Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
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Cricket is my first love.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
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My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
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I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.
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I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
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I well recall my emotions when I came upon the grave of Beethoven in the Central Friedhof, with its incomparable guard of honor - Mozart, Schubert, Gluck, Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss!
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You are human and fallible.
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Margaret Thatcher was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.
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Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!
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In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.
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Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.
