Kenya Barris Quotes
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I don't like possessions.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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Companies are not lead by a single person; they're lead by a group of individuals collectively making good decisions on behalf of the company.
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I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
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I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
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First favorite character growing up was Spider-Man, second was Wolverine.
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Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.
