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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A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.
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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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When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it. And you do that by loving the wacky, endlessly optimistic, enthusiasticall y uninhibited free spirit that is the essence of style, the quintessence of heart, and uniquely you.
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I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.
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Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person.
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I thought our seniors' focus and desire was excellent. They put it on the line today, but it just wasn't enough.
