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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When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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Having more customers means nothing if America's small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.
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Music keeps people sane.
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I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.
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Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
