Kenya Barris Quotes

It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy.

Kenya Barris

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Fighter

• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
  • Love
  • Artist

• I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Lies

• When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Best

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Fight

• Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • You
  • Myself
  • Possible

• I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Me
  • Fashion
  • Child

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Fall
  • Minutes
  • Stamina

• I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Shows
  • Revenge
  • Game of Thrones

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • Anything
  • Little

• 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

• I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness.

  

  Susan Egan
  • Performances
  • Grew Up
  • Uniqueness

• Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

  

  Arthur C. Brooks
  • World
  • Free
  • Pride

• I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Life
  • Home
  • Happy

• So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • People
  • Future
  • Question

• It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Happy