Norm Parker Quotes
The only thing I've ever told myself is I would never do this just to have a job. If I lost my competitiveness . . . then I wouldn't insult the game by (sticking around). But I enjoy being around the kids. I'm having a good time right now.
Quotes to Explore
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
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It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
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I hate to cook and love to eat.
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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
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I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.
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When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.
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It's not attractive to be talking down about yourself all the time. All you continue to do to yourself is pull yourself further down into a deeper place of depression and sadness and insecurity and fear and hopelessness, so it's like, having God in your life is important, accepting who you are is important, regardless of what you look like.
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If one group of people can exterminate another in the name of so-called religion, the world has no hope.
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The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.
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The only thing I've ever told myself is I would never do this just to have a job. If I lost my competitiveness . . . then I wouldn't insult the game by (sticking around). But I enjoy being around the kids. I'm having a good time right now.
