John Ridley Quotes
Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
Quotes to Explore
-
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
-
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
-
I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
-
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
-
I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
-
The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
-
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
-
Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
-
This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
-
We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
-
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
-
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
-
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
-
Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
-
We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
-
I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
-
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
-
It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.
-
So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
-
Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
-
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
-
I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a better artist.
-
Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
