Antoine Fuqua Quotes

When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.

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• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

  

  Carl Forti
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• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
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• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

  

  Yael Naim
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• When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
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• I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
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• On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
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• It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

  

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• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  

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• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• People talk about the age and positioning of a brand, but hell, it's not about that. The global language is digital, and we need to speak the language.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
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• I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
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• The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing.

  

  Jon Lester
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• Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take a breather and do other things for your career.

  

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• I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

  

  Cyrus Broacha
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• When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.

  

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