John Ridley Quotes
Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.
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The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.
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People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
