Amber Riley Quotes
I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Women just love to shop.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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It's unfortunate that cyberbullying is something that happens to 13-year-old kids in junior high and adults in the workplace. It's something that we have to deal with as Americans.
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A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.
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Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
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I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.
