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Joseph Parker Quotes

With the overhand right in the past, I always got caught. My chin was up, and my shoulder wasn't where it was supposed to be, covering my chin.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: January 9, 1992

Topics

Past Right Always Shoulder Up Where

During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.

School Newspaper University British

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Love Light Man Plant Liberty Need

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.

Father History Best Parents Me Said

I've never met him, but I love the simplicity with which Warren Buffett describes good and bad businesses and how he makes his investment decisions.

Steve Easterbrook

Love Good Simplicity Decisions Bad

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

Rosanna Arquette

Change Music People Minds Changes

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

Mitch McConnell

Father Morning Daughter Day Job

From abundance springs satiety.

Abundance Springs

Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn't make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury me.

Good Technology Day Me Brain World

The Russians as a people had no point of conflict with the Germans; the conflict came from their respective imperialistic policies. When the Russian people learned that imperialism was historically wrong, they set up a revolution in 1917 and overthrew imperialism at home. They then negotiated for peace separately with Germany.

Home Peace People Conflict Wrong Up

People don't understand how much influence they can actually have on a writer, how much a writer's feelings can be hurt, how much they can deflect his course when they raise their voices like they did over highly personal books like 'Panama' or 'Bullet Park.'

People Influence Hurt Feelings Park

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family.

Family Brother Sister Photographer

I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production.

I Am Museum Celebration Individual

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