Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes

The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.

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• Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

  

  Parker Posey
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  • Know
  • Doing

• Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Done
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  • Talk

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
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  • Today

• We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Long
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  • Change

• If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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  • Earth
  • Iran

• I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Science
  • Question
  • Popular

• You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
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  • Fear

• There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

  

  Owen Feltham
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• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
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• Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
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• Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Guy

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
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• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

  Utah Phillips
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• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
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• You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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  • Imagination

• Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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  • Many

• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
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  • Nature

• I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!

  

  Laurie Hernandez
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  • Funny

• To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.

  

  Barack Obama
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• There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.

  

  Andre Ward

• The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.

  

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