John Singleton Quotes
'Baby Boy' is one of my favourite films, and Tyrese keeps telling everybody we're going to make a sequel. I mean, we have a story right now but we don't know where we're going to take it.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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There is always room for coincidence.
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Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.
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I'm a geek to the bone.
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I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.
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I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.
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'Baby Boy' is one of my favourite films, and Tyrese keeps telling everybody we're going to make a sequel. I mean, we have a story right now but we don't know where we're going to take it.
