John Ridley Quotes

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

John Ridley

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• That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Moments
  • Miracle
  • Youth

• It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • People
  • Time
  • Nature

• When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Risk

• I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Amazing

• There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Success

• Would it not be as well to liberate and make soldiers at once of the blacks themselves, as to make them instruments for enlisting white soldiers? It would certainly be more consonant to the principles of liberty which ought never to be lost sight of in a contest for liberty...

  

  James Madison
  • Lost

• I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

  

  Billy Burke
  • Time

• There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.

  

  Mary Steenburgen

• I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water.

  

  James Patterson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I let my racket do the talking.

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

  

  Margo Price
  • Career
  • College
  • Dance

• Whether you either passionately think we should stay in, or on balance think we should stay in, or on a balance of risks think we should stay in - for heaven's sake get out and vote in, because you might wake up and find out you're out.

  

  David Cameron
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Balance

• I don't know if it's just me getting older or if it's a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there's a lot more time being spent at home than out.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

  

  Christine Taylor
  • Kids
  • Hand

• If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

  

  Christine Taylor

• Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Time
  • Great
  • Truth

• I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

  

  Mark Ruffalo

• I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Care
  • Creativity
  • Background

• I started singing to this one John Legend record; it was called 'Each Day Gets Better,' or something like that. I started to realize, 'Wow, I really sound like this dude. If I keep doing this, maybe I can sound dope like John Legend and still rap.'

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Singing
  • Rap
  • Legend

• I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Stop

• I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

  

  Jo Brand
  • People
  • Children
  • Death

• I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

  

  John Ridley
  • Dope