Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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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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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.
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Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.
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I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.
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Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.
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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.
