Melina Matsoukas Quotes
As a toddler, my favorite piece of clothing was my Oshkosh denim overalls that I would call my Oreos because I could never say Oshkosh. I was literally obsessed with them and wanted to wear them every single day.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Tremblez, tyrans, vous êtes immortels.
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
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The essential meaning of such an assertion is this: events a and b are necessarily dependent moments of a single unified occurrence . The mathematical formula states the quantitative relations involved in the occurrence. Already in such cases the dependent moment of the occurrence are moments that obtain temporally by side.
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My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that I'm completely used to it, and I've come to see it as a term of endearment.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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As a toddler, my favorite piece of clothing was my Oshkosh denim overalls that I would call my Oreos because I could never say Oshkosh. I was literally obsessed with them and wanted to wear them every single day.
