John Ridley Quotes
Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!
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With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people.
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For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
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Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.
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Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
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Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
