John Ridley Quotes
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
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We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.
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My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.
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Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
