Haile Gerima Quotes

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

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• Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'

  

  J. August Richards
  • Think
  • Know
  • Information

• You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Home
  • Think
  • You

• Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Smart
  • Win
  • President

• When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• It is always the unreadable that occurs.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Always
  • Occurs
  • Unreadable

• Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Guy
  • Once
  • Magnet

• We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

  Sam Childers
  • America
  • Bad
  • Want

• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
  • Director
  • Easygoing

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Good
  • Jealous
  • Pure

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Same

• I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Me
  • Actor

• Philosophy is in history, and is never independent of historical discourse. But for the tacit symbolism of life it substitutes, in principle, a conscious symbolism; for a latent meaning, one that is manifest. It is never content to accept its historical situation. It changes this situation by revealing it to itself.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Life
  • History
  • Independent

• I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Technology

• The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Age
  • Society

• I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

  

  William P. Young
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Events

• For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Independent
  • Movement
  • Cinema