Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.
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I'm a big supporter of immigration.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
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In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality
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My attitude would be the same as the attitude of the working class in Germany when the Nazis came to power. It does not mean that because at some stage you elect a government that you tolerate its existence. You oppose it...I will oppose a second-term Thatcher government as vigorously as I possibly can.
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Make injustice visible.
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When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.
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The more difficult the role, the more I am loving it.
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Of all the reader questions I get each week, the most common question I get is, 'What are you wearing?'
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Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
