Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes

I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn't a guitar to try and trick people into actually thinking it was a keyboard. I don't know why that was such an obsession, why I didn't just get a keyboard. I guess it was because I had no money.

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• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Dress

• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Interesting
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Together
  • Help
  • Game

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Live
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• I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • She
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• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • Life
  • Family
  • Father

• Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Instruments
  • Guitars
  • Feel Correct

• We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Learn
  • Ways

• Truth be told, I don’t really prepare much. I’m not a very serious actor in those regards. I learn my lines, I show up, I take direction.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Serious

• I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn't a guitar to try and trick people into actually thinking it was a keyboard. I don't know why that was such an obsession, why I didn't just get a keyboard. I guess it was because I had no money.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
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