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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The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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Old friendship doesn't fear the rust .
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To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
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You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
