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.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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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.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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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.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.
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Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.
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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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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.
