Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes

Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

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• It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

  

  Ouida
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mother

• My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Why

• I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Friend

• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Special
  • Fact
  • Elements

• I really hate rubber ducks, actually.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Hate
  • Really
  • Ducks

• Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Now

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

  

  Nas
  • New
  • New York
  • Hip Hop

• Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Energy

• Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Book
  • Effort

• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Heart
  • Dark

• A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Wise

• I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women - and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • Believe
  • Women

• At that time c. 1904 – 1905 I tried, by means of lines and by distribution of mottled points of colours in his tempera painting on paper: 'Russian Beauty in a Landscape', 1905 to express the musical spirit of Russia. Other pictures of that period reflected the contradictions and later the eccentricities of Russia.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Period
  • Painting

• I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Women
  • Hate

• There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command).

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Military

• A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Knows
  • Madmen

• I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.

  

  Ahmed H. Zewail
  • Science
  • Excited
  • Young People

• Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Nature

• Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • House

• Jose Mourinho has been really clear about what he expects from me, saying he wants me working hard rather than just scoring. Hard work is what he values.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Work

• Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala