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.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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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.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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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.
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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.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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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.
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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.'
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I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.
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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.
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I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up."
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The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
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I always wanted to be a pilot.
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It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.
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I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.
