Erik Parker Quotes
Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I am a just man.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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On the day that you were bornThe angels got togetherAnd decided to create a dream come trueSo they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of goldAnd starlight in your eyes of blue.
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
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Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation.
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If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
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I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.
