John Singleton Quotes
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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.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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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.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
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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.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.
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The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
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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.
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If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.
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Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
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I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.
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Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
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Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.
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I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.
