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.
Venus Williams -
Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban -
My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
Tamra Davis -
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
S. Truett Cathy -
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 -
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
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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.
Walt Disney -
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 -
Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
Larry Brilliant -
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 -
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 -
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
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall -
Oh, where is there the heart but knowsLove's first steps are upon the rose!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
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?
Sarah McLachlan -
Nobody wants to see us together, but it don't matter. No, because I got you babe.
Akon -
This is an opportunity for bipartisanship and transcendence, an opportunity to find our better selves and in rising to meet this challenge, create a better brighter future - a future worthy of the generations who come after us and who have a right to be able to depend on us.
Al Gore -
I went skydiving, I went rocky mountain climbling, I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Blue Manchu.And I loved deeper, and I spoke sweeter, and I gave forgiveness I'd been denying.And he said 'Someday, I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.'
Tim McGraw
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I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done him.
Mark Twain -
I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.
Cliff Martinez -
A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.
Buddy Hackett -
At my core, I'm shy.
Kenya Barris