Arthur Jafa Quotes

I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.

Arthur Jafa

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  • Want
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• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
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• The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

  

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• A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
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  • Beauty
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• A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Army
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• I enjoy every role I do.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Enjoy
  • Role
  • Every

• I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Hand
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• I don't like when I look too cluttered.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
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• I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.

  

  Maeve Binchy

• That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn’t you find somebody to worship who isn’t a shracking psychopath?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God
  • Age
  • House

• Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.

  

  Mark Addy
  • Soul

• It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.

  

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• A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

  

  Arthur Bloch
  • Failure

• Google Now supplants the need to open an app by surfacing cards - cards that magically turn into just the information you need, when you need it - without having to go to an app to get it.

  

  John Battelle

• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Together
  • Black
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• We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

  

  Glenn Tipton Judas Priest
  • Music
  • Joy
  • Stage

• There are a lot of really fabulous things that get done with digital assets and blockchain technologies to reduce friction, to reduce costs, and enable things that weren't possible before.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse
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• Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd

• I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.

  

  Arthur Jafa
  • Music
  • Black
  • Cinema