Kenya Barris Quotes

I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.

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• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Look

• A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Cool
  • Powerful
  • Person

• Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Human
  • Place

• Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Home

• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Best
  • Band

• Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Running
  • Space
  • Down

• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Successful

• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Talking

• I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Computer
  • After

• Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Small
  • Impact
  • Errors

• I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Content
  • Prefer

• I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Security
  • Will

• I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • People
  • Never
  • Partner

• Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Women
  • Look
  • Lips

• I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Thought
  • Creative

• An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Experience
  • New
  • Author

• I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Never
  • Watch

• In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Suffering
  • Order
  • Cruel

• A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Women
  • Children
  • Education

• War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

  

  Alfred Hermann Fried
  • War
  • Anarchy
  • Symptom

• Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Needs
  • Media
  • Social

• Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life.

  

  James Collins
  • Life

• I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.

  

  Kenya Barris