Norm Parker Quotes
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.
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My family's a ruling family.
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If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids.
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.
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A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
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Boys do what they want to do, Men do what they need to do.
