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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

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Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

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In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

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Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. ↗

— Francis Parkman

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The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions. ↗

— Francis Parkman

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At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. ↗

— Gordon Parks

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I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. ↗

— Gordon Parks

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People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other. ↗

— Gordon Parks

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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. ↗

— Rosa Parks

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