Kenya Barris Quotes
Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.Kenya Barris
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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.
Barack Obama -
So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
Francesca Annis -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
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.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson -
Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
Hamza Yusuf
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian -
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.
Rachel Cusk -
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.
Uwe Boll -
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage -
I don't really see myself as an actor.
Youssou N'Dour -
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.
J. Michael Straczynski
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If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Mackenzie King -
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.
Mara Brock Akil -
I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
Ted Demme -
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
Dale Murphy
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Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.
Andrew Card -
The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
Douglas Brinkley -
Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
Vidya Balan -
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men say that God punishes for complaining. No, but men are angry with misery. They are irritated with women for not being happy. They take it as a personal offence. To God alone may women complain without insulting Him!
Florence Nightingale -
Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.
James Patterson -
Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.
Kenya Barris