Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe

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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Voice

• I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Myself

• At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Red

• Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Book

• The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I’m thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Shoes

• Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Party

• I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

  

  Big Sean
  • Money
  • Shoes

• I don't check for Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don't wake me up in the morning. I don't care about them, and they certainly don't drive the conversations I'm thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.

  

  Buzz Osborne
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Interesting

• The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!' The swagger he had really helped my confidence, because he really made me think that a white boy could make music like this.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Most comics point out what everyone else is thinking but hadn't thought of verbalizing. I guess, in a way, that makes most comics seers. It just depends in what category - some choose to be the seers of relationships, some are seers of racial issues, and some are seers of political issues.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Thinking
  • Political

• I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Heaven

• I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Inspire
  • Musicians
  • Fortunate

• There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

  

  Jim Barksdale
  • Past

• You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Thinking
  • Needs
  • Exercise