Kenya Barris Quotes

When you're in the middle of it, when you're a kid growing up, you don't think, 'This is my first heartbreak.' You just think, 'My heart is broken.' But then as a parent, you look back, and you see your child go through his or her first heartbreak, and you're realizing, 'Oh my God, this is her first heartbreak.'

Kenya Barris

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I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.

Jim Webb

I AmBuildingOfficeStandardsThan

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Joanna Lumley

DieYouBornAliveDeserveAble

For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

Jody Williams

MeWorldBetterPlacePersonUs

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

Jennifer Beals

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

John Jay Chapman

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Stephen Levine

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The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

Roger Clemens

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One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

Russell M. Nelson

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Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly believe.

Matt Bevin

PeopleBelieveMediaCareerParty

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

Molly Ivins

PeopleSpeakStandAmericanMedia

Since most cyberwar is conducted covertly, governments avoid any public acknowledgment of their own abilities and shy away from engaging in any sort of 'cyber diplomacy.' Statecraft conducted in secret fails to create public norms for deterrence.

Jared Cohen

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I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'

Christine Quinn

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