John Salley Quotes
There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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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.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.
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Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
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The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.
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There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.
