Barry Jenkins Quotes

I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.

  

  Jack Osbourne
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  • Better

• My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Peaceful

• The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Inspiration

• I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Human
  • Logic
  • Hopeless

• I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Water

• If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Amazing
  • Gift
  • Uncle

• I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Career
  • Feel
  • Young

• I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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  • Best
  • Advice

• We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Moving
  • Opportunities

• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Myself
  • New

• I want to be judged on my own merits.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Better
  • Nutrition

• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Characters
  • Enemies

• God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Gospel
  • Enterprise

• As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Control
  • Attention

• Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Done

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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