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Todd Park Quotes

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: 1973

Topics

Parents Never Kid Him Tell Act

One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.

Life Day Game One Day Kid Mess

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

Dog Me Year Dumb Birth Kid

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Comedy Tragedy Core Avoiding

'Futurama' was a big deal. People had already started to hear about me a little bit here and there, but that was the first series I booked to be a regular on.

People Me First Little Big Started

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

Past Literature Assumptions Now Been

I think I have a harder time writing about things that I am not actually going through.

Time I Am Writing Think Going

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Positive Beginning Me Act Going Get

I'm hoping to have a ninth decade like Matisse's.

Decade Like Hoping Ninth

I have no idea what stocks I held in the '90s, in the 2000s, or even now.

Now Idea No Idea Even Stocks Held

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Passion Man Action Political Friends

When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.

Douglas Tompkins

God Growing Up Society Road Believe

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

Wisdom People Black America White

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