Antoine Fuqua Quotes

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

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• I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Beautiful
  • Person
  • Horrible

• Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Treat

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Dream

• If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Eye

• When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stop

• I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

  

  Oliver North
  • Money
  • Support
  • Thought

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ended

• Before Mint.com, I was a long-time user of 'Microsoft Money' and Intuit's 'Quicken.' Both were powerful tools, loaded with features and functionality around taxes, investment, budgeting - too feature-laden, in fact. They took hours to set up, forever to learn, and an hour a week to maintain.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Know
  • Control
  • Creative

• It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Time
  • May
  • War

• Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Different
  • Vegas

• Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • People

• I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Strong

• I watch old 'Truth or Consequences' on Hulu. 'Concentration.' And 'The Match Game' with Gene Rayburn.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Truth
  • Game

• You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

  

  Dave Ramsey

• My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Long
  • Art
  • Character

• Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Different

• Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Remember
  • Education
  • Jump

• I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

  

  Antoine Fuqua