Kenya Barris Quotes

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

Kenya Barris

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Nobody
  • Court

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Mean
  • Person

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Home is most important in the long run.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Important
  • Long
  • Home

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Child

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • God
  • Truth

• Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Year
  • Plants

• In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Story
  • Because

• Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Young

• As for Sisley, I just can't enjoy his work visiting the Paris Impressionism-exhibition of art-dealer M. Petit, May 1887, it is commonplace, forced, disordered; Sisley has a good eye, and his work will certainly charm all those whose artistic sense is not very refined.

  

  Alfred Sisley
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

  

  Bing Gordon
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I was the most subtle person in the world.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Person
  • Subtle

• Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • People
  • May
  • Band

• The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.

  

  George Benson
  • Remember
  • Memories
  • Recollection

• I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • People
  • American
  • Society