Kenya Barris Quotes
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
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Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
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For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
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Oh, where is there the heart but knowsLove's first steps are upon the rose!
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In the desert of my dreams I saw you there;And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare.But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed.And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared.Oh why?
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Nobody wants to see us together, but it don't matter. No, because I got you babe.
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You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.
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Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.
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I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.
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Harry Potter was my first job.
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I see so many people. They just seem to be hopeless. Being a Christian and being a pastor, the ultimate hope is in Jesus.
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At my core, I'm shy.
