Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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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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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.
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My favorite thing is when a mom comes up to us and thanks us for being a positive influence on their daughter with our music. Day made.
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I'm always working on new music.
