Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
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I am a lawyer by profession.
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The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.
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I've always gone for the more understated look.
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We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.
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Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
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Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
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If I did all the stuff I've been accused of - or credited with - there's no way I could make all this music. I'd be drinking myself into the grave.
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I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.
