John Ridley Quotes
I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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The devil made me do it.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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One can only blaspheme if one believes.
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If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
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'In the fitful light of the dusky hall the newcomer's face suddenly appeared fiery-eyed and menacing, and, glancing at a portrait of Mephistopheles, Rosamond exclaimed, 'Why, you are the very image of Meph-'
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The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.
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We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.
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I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.
