Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes
If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
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You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.
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Your mom's in our business...she's in our business...
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There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You
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I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.
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I'm not a daily coffee guy at all, or energy drinks or anything like that.
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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I was in the projects dreaming about doing music and now I've done music. When I had nothing to when I had something I still have this driving force that's fueling me every day and that's making ideas reality.
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Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.
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He thought that everyone should listen to her voice, because there was so much sadness and happiness in it, all at the same time. And he knew she could make the world be quiet, and he thought that maybe the world needed to be quiet. That was the problem with the world—it never stayed quiet long enough to listen.
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I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I've accomplished something useful.
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Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image.
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
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Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.
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For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.
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If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.
