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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• A woman doesn't have to direct a woman's film and a man doesn't have to direct a man's film; otherwise, where would we be?

  

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• When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

  

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• Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.

  

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• If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five several protuberances or risings, each ending in a point and altogether forming a kind of enclosure.

  

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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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