Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said.
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Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.
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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
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Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
