Kenya Barris Quotes
When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
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My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.
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How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.
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To me, leadership is helping people do their best. If you define leadership that way, I don't think it's overrated.
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A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.
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When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.
