Kenya Barris Quotes
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
Quentin Blake -
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Daniel Boone -
I always drive like a madman.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.
Madisen Beaty -
We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
Adam Mansbach -
One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
Iman
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
Kate Smith -
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
Ian MacKaye -
I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
Laura Dern -
Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln -
If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
Maisie Williams
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
K. Flay -
I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
Haley Bennett -
No one man is superior to the game.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Abraham Lincoln -
I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
Zaha Hadid
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You can't argue with stupidity.
Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons -
I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.
Jason Boyd -
There's fresh fish, and then there's fresh fish. Samoa is ranked as one of the best places for game fishing in all the world, and runs thick in the waters off the island chain. In fact, it's used as an edible currency in local markets. The day I fished there, we caught loads of yellowfin.
Andrew Zimmern -
My ankle hurts from dancing last night so there is pain. But the pain doesn't hurt me for there is no me.
Ken Wilber -
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
Ruth Gordon -
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.
Kenya Barris