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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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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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 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 want my outfit to match my mood.
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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 still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.
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I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
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If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.
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A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.
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As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
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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.
