Kenya Barris Quotes
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Values are more important than money.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.
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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
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College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who was a songwriter, which I didn't realize was a real job.
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I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.
