John Singleton Quotes

I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.

John Singleton

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• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Mysterious

• It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Doubt
  • Smoking
  • Statistics

• I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Cute
  • Only
  • Revolutionary

• One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Girl

• I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Fighting

• Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Dreams
  • Fool
  • WIld

• The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Future
  • Young
  • Influence

• I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Energy
  • Angry
  • Used

• I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Imagination

• When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • War
  • Colleagues

• While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

  

  Maimonides
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Man

• Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Reading

• The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Time
  • Running
  • Gym

• The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Fire
  • Taught
  • How

• I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Seen
  • Satisfies

• The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Dream
  • Idea
  • Exciting

• I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• I think all politicians lie.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • Lie
  • Politicians

• I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Time

• Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

  

  FKA twigs
  • World
  • Real
  • Racism

• I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Stupid
  • Ugly

• I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.

  

  John Singleton