Kenya Barris Quotes
Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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Sell to their needs-not from yours.
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I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.
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Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.
