Dave Parker Quotes
Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.
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My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.
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I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.
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With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.
