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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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
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I think of 'The Hobbit' as more like a boy's own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s.
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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.
