Rian Johnson Quotes

You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

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• I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Country
  • American
  • Guy

• As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Community
  • Action

• An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Country
  • She

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Heart
  • Blues

• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Matter
  • Interest
  • Opinions

• I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Education
  • Christian

• It's difficult when you want it all.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Want
  • You
  • Difficult

• Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • God
  • Same
  • Nothing

• To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Win
  • Motivational

• For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Military
  • Gay

• I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Important
  • Think
  • Matter

• I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Famous
  • Bragging
  • Cocky

• I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Peace

• On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Past
  • Walking

• Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Art
  • Sex
  • Enemy

• I'm a part of a team, and I'm no better or any worse than any single player on this team. That's the approach I've always had and will continue to have. It's not about me. It has never been all about me. If it had, this would have been a really lonely journey.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Team
  • Player
  • Journey

• If we're talking about guys who set the tone, you've got to go way back. But if we're talking about guys who made it possible for guys like A.J. Styles, Shawn Michaels kind of opened that door, along with Daniel Bryan.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Kind
  • Door
  • Talking

• To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Children
  • Impossible
  • Hatred

• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Long
  • Country
  • High

• If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Question
  • Intelligent
  • Stupid Girl

• You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

  

  Rian Johnson
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