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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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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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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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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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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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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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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One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
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You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.
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This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.
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Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.
