Dave Parker Quotes
Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.
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I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.
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The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
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Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I don't think there's any accidents in my life.
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I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice, and playing softball was where I learned precision, and in every game I learned to play as a member of a team - to work not for my own glory, but for a shared goal.
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If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.
