Kevin Parker Quotes

If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.

Kevin Parker

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LifeSleepCareLongDistanceTry

I think there are a lot of misconceptions on both sides, the developing vs. the developed world, especially about America. I've felt the frustration in my lack of belonging to any one place, but I've also felt it liberating to be able to appreciate something without feeling disloyal to my own culture.

Jhumpa Lahiri

CultureWorldFrustrationThink

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

John Fogerty

BeautifulSimpleThinkHarmonyLike

A thing hard to track is Fortune.

Menander

HardFortuneTrackThing

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

Jeff Bridges

CareerActingDoneMoviesMakeMain

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

Stephen Karam

GoodDeathThinkAmericanPlayOut

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

Rutina Wesley

CryActor

I tend to watch the score board a lot.

Jason Day

WatchScoreBoardLotTend

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.

Joseph Brodsky

PoetryPeopleChoiceSeriousBuy

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

Donella Meadows

PoliticsEnergyPoliticalAnalysis

I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.

Chen Guangbiao

HistoryPeopleMeRememberWant

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

HonestyGreatTalentPeopleModesty

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

Plautus

CuriousNobodyWhoMalevolent

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