Kenya Barris Quotes
My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like, 'How could you not know that?' But for the ones who didn't know, he was basically the only president they knew.
Quotes to Explore
-
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
-
I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
-
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
-
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
-
Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
-
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
-
What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
-
Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
-
Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
-
That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
-
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
-
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
-
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
-
My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
-
No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
-
You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
-
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
-
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
-
I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.
-
You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.
-
Make your film for the least amount you can.
-
A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.
-
If you don't like what you're doing, get out.
-
My kids did not know that Obama was the first black president. I felt like I needed to tell them because I felt like, 'How could you not know that?' But for the ones who didn't know, he was basically the only president they knew.
