Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes

I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects.

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• I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • American
  • America

• I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Myself

• I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Try

• I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Love
  • Hard
  • For Him

• Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Parents
  • Struggle
  • Cost

• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Done
  • Courage

• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  

  Vanna White
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Television

• I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Kids
  • Video Games

• I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Read
  • Lot
  • Nerdy

• Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Values
  • Your
  • Morals

• For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • People
  • You
  • Price

• I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Country
  • Science
  • Religious

• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Lying

• Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Good
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Shaw presumes that his friend Stalin has everything under control. Well, Stalin may have made special arrangements to see that Shaw comes to no harm, but the rest of us in Western Europe do not feel quite so sure of our fate, especially those of us who do not share Shaw's curious admiration for dictators.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Control
  • Friend

• Nothing is more real than nothing.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Real

• I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Star
  • Innocent

• I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Fans
  • To Do
  • Lot

• I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Change
  • Saying

• Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little while.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Divorce

• I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Hated
  • Resilient
  • For a while

• I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala