Haile Gerima Quotes
Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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You never know what's going to happen. In a game where you're down by 20, you're still trying to win the game.
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Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
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Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.
