Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes

To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.

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• If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Mind
  • Victory
  • Give

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Lazy
  • Concentrate

• The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Serious

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Mind
  • Logic
  • Insanity

• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Band
  • Taken

• I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Travel

• A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Good
  • Mind
  • School

• Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Best

• I like a man with some extra padding.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Man
  • Like
  • Some

• Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Rock
  • Kid
  • Roll

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it's phony to say 'I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.'

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Environment

• I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Time

• Policing was developed, created, and implemented for the elite, and - in the case of the United States - the elites were and almost entirely remain white, upper middle class, cisgender straight men.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Men

• I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dog

• Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Game

• To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Mind
  • Rock