Lennon Parham Quotes
You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.
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In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
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I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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[Bob] Corker was an early endorser.
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You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.
