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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I'm happy for those kids. Let those kids know if they work as hard as they can and do what they're asked to, they'll give themselves an opportunity to win the championship. They're a great example for the future kids to come.
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The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends. Thus, abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'
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My commitment to the players was to try to keep this whole group together and hopefully improve and step up again next year.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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I breastfed Sophie for 14 months and Nicolas for 11 months.
