Teyonah Parris Quotes

An actor hears 'no' more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That's a lot of no's.

Teyonah Parris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 22, 1987

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Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Johannes Tauler

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My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.

Melissa Bean

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The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.

Matthew Stewart

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The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

John Podhoretz

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We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is the natural way for us to live, and we're suddenly living in this profoundly unnatural way, and we're still in the process of adapting to it and working out how to live with it.

Spencer Wells

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I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

Michael Kors

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People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lucinda Williams

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People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Judith Guest

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As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.

Johnny Mathis

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Chauncey Wright

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'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Christine Pelosi

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With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

Brad Goreski

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