Kenya Barris Quotes

At my core, I'm shy.

Kenya Barris

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• Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Look

• Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Organization
  • Definitely
  • Authoritarian

• Better to be disliked than pitied.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Better
  • DIsliked
  • Pitied

• My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Eggs

• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • You
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Look
  • Ghost

• Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Live
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Famous
  • Just Because

• 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.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Something
  • Global Warming

• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Time
  • Music
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Me
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Welfare
  • Poor People

• 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.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Free

• It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Book

• Oh, where is there the heart but knowsLove's first steps are upon the rose!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Rose

• A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Superhero

• I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I have no problem with them imitating me. It's a compliment. Everybody has to start out looking up to someone. For me it was James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Up

• Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The missing political testament that should have been in the autobiography, but isn't.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Political
  • Chance

• Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Life
  • True

• At my core, I'm shy.

  

  Kenya Barris