Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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The 5G world will be a collaborative ecosystem, and the role of what each of us will do in that remains to be thought through.
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I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women in my life. That's very meaningful to me and you see it in my work. I write a lot about matriarchs and the pain of it, the beauty of it, the burden of it, the love of it.
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A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
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In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.
