Parker Stevenson Quotes
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.
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I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
