Ava DuVernay Quotes
Many hated 'Selma.' Just because my voice and the voice of the people I come from is antithetical to so much of what Hollywood produces. I don't think what I'm saying is in particular radical or anything; it's just different from what they want to sell.Ava DuVernay
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan -
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
Sally Pearson -
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
You can almost taste the pressure now.
Vin Scully -
I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
Garrett Neff
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone -
You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
Naomi Judd -
All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
C. L. R. James -
I'm an emotional guy.
J. R. Martinez -
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Zaha Hadid
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
Ed Royce -
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
Lars von Trier -
I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
Daniel Bruhl -
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
Walter Cronkite -
It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.
Jackie Speier -
I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
E. P. Thompson
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It's not so much the revenge factor. Yes, we lost, yes it left a horrible taste in our mouths at the end of the season. It may have a little extra incentive to it, but it's just the next game on our schedule.
Kyle Cook Matchbox Twenty -
My dad told remarkable stories about how kindness helped him through, and he lived his life afterward always trying to make people's lives better.
Daniel Lubetzky -
I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.
Kirsty Gallacher -
Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.
Achim Steiner -
A gift of truth is the gift of love.
David Icke -
Many hated 'Selma.' Just because my voice and the voice of the people I come from is antithetical to so much of what Hollywood produces. I don't think what I'm saying is in particular radical or anything; it's just different from what they want to sell.
Ava DuVernay