John Ridley Quotes
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.John Ridley
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
J. Paul Getty -
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.
Tammy Duckworth -
It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
A. James Clark
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
Pamela Meyer -
What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
Candace Parker -
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
Patrick Swayze -
You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
Ice Cube -
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. Griffin
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I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.
Imelda May -
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
Gary Lucas -
I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.
Ozwald Boateng -
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac D'Israeli -
I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
Ottessa Moshfegh
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I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
Jeff Koons -
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Patrick O'Brian -
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Ida B. Wells -
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer -
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.
John Ridley