Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.
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We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.
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I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.
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Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.
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I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.
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I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.
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As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.
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If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.
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But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
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I remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawberry was on that team. It was the first time I actually got goose bumps playing against another team.
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I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.
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I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.
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I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.
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Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession.
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With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.
