Ed Parker Quotes
The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.
Quotes to Explore
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
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There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.
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When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.
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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
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The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.
