Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
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Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
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I'm a feminist and the theme of her song is, 'When you're ready come and get it from me.' I'm sick of women being portrayed this way.
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Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.
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So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.
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There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.
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I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.
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The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.
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It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.
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The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
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Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.
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The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.
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I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.
