Teyonah Parris Quotes
When you get older, you start to doubt, and you put limitations on yourself. But little Teyonah had no fear.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
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I adore 'The Chipmunks.'
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
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Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
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Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.
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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
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We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.
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When you get older, you start to doubt, and you put limitations on yourself. But little Teyonah had no fear.
