Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes
All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.
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I want my outfit to match my mood.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.
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I'm too lazy to work out.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
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I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.
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All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.
