Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes
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Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.
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I think that's the biggest misconception - that in order for me to be sexy I have to make sure my boobs are out.
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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.
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Love is easily killed.
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and is opposed to anything that aids in the exclusion; the face may be Africa, but the heart has the beat of Wall Street.
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A good laugh is the best pesticide.
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Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving.
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The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.
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We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.
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Anyone can have bad sets. I saw one guy who I really love - I won't mention his name - gave a set that was really bad. And then one month later did the exact same set on our show and it was great.
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I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.
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I breastfed Sophie for 14 months and Nicolas for 11 months.