Kenya Barris Quotes
I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought about as a kid but then remembered as a parent.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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I would say 10 percent of fans understand it, which might be more than the people who do it for a living.
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I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church.
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Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. 'The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.'
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When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.
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I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought about as a kid but then remembered as a parent.
