Antoine Fuqua Quotes
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
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It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't.
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Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.
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Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.
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At the end of that two weeks Bernard Leach asked us if we would like to sit with him tending the kiln, the big oil-fired kiln that they had. He was still sitting what we call a kiln watch at that time, and he wondered if we would like to sit the watch with him and talk. So naturally this was our last opportunity to talk with him, so we said yes. We didn't realize Bernard's kiln watch was from 1:00 in the morning until 4:00 AM.
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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I like making movies.
