Antoine Fuqua Quotes

You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Silence

• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Money
  • Look
  • Roads

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Conflict
  • Dollar

• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Ability
  • Over
  • Disability

• Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Attitude

• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • House
  • Loved
  • Living

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Always
  • Wishes
  • Philippines

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Safety
  • Planet

• It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Think

• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• There's depth in my comedy.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Comedy
  • Depth

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • World
  • America

• My greatest competition is, well, me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Competition
  • Greatest

• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?

  

  Freddie Wong
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • War
  • Guy

• You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
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