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Billy Parish Quotes

At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.

Billy Parish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1981

Topics

Youth End Year Crisis Build Try

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

Jim Henson

Respect Time Opinion Doing You

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

Joaquin Phoenix

Try Along Sing Would Like Bands

For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

Jermain Defoe

Love Live Great Football Me You

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.

Matthew Quick

Man Weird Hide Emotions Cry Movies

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

Jeff Lemire

I Am People Think Way Worst Where

Instead of doing thousands of dives, I am focusing on quality, and I'm listening to my body more.

Troy Dumais

Quality I Am Listening Doing Body

When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing scripts for that age.

Mary Badham

Age Woman Child Writing In-Between

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

Mike Huckabee

Work Health Work Hard Care Reward

You need to begin to network with angels and VCs while you are still ideating. It is easier to ask someone you know for funding than a stranger. Build your financial network by attending as many industry functions and reaching out for advice from experts online.

Jay Samit

Financial Advice Someone You Know

You can't rush an art form.

Chet Faker

Art You Rush Form Art Form

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

Corey Feldman

Actor More Industry Icon Than

When you have 12 hours of storytelling, the cool thing about it is that you get to really leave people with question marks, but hopefully wanting to come back.

Brian J. Smith

People Cool You Back Storytelling