Hood Quotes

• I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Power
  • Texas
  • September

• The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I'm a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Life
  • Good
  • Community

• Cause I'm still hood, Hollywood couldn't change me.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Hollywood
  • Stills
  • Causes

• What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Needs
  • Hood

• The idea of a financial transaction tax on Wall Street trades is gaining momentum. I have a bill called - nicknamed the Robin Hood tax also. It's a bill that taxes stock trades, derivatives and bonds, and would generate in the neighborhood of $300 billion a year.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Wall
  • Financial
  • Stock

• HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

  

  Mathieu Kassovitz
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Society

• Richard Armitage is very good at the old horse riding because of course he did it in 'Robin Hood,' so he's very good at that.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Hood

• I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Men
  • Live
  • Home

• I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood, but it is not a race-based experience - it is part of the artistic process.

  

  Nia Long
  • Choices
  • Artistic
  • Hood

• The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Singing
  • Red
  • Wolf

• Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he never left New York - Mel Brooks when he just got out of New York was doing 'Blazing Saddles;' when he left New York he started doing stuff like 'Robin Hood Men In Tights' - he was in L.A. too long. He lost the edge.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• At midnight they can come into your room and take you away. They can put a black hood on you, take you to a secret place and interrogate you, trying to stop what you’re doing. They threaten people, your family, saying: 'Your children won’t find jobs.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Children
  • Trying

• We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Style

• I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Up
  • Car
  • Summer

• In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In 'Robin Hood', you have more artistic license - it's all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Life
  • True
  • Action

• If I'm in the 'hood, I like Chef Creole's Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Hood

• I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

  

  Jonas Armstrong
  • Job
  • Hood
  • Cocky

• Before 'Scandal,' I was actually cast in two other pilots. Both went to series, but I was fired and recast. For both, it was because they wanted me to sound more 'girlfriend,' more like 'hood,' more 'urban.'

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Girlfriend
  • Hood

• Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

  

  Jim Woodring
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Hood

• My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

  

  Keith O'Brien
  • Help
  • Hood

• A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Fame
  • Ballads
  • Robins

• My goal was always to be working on the biggest stage in the world: Hollywood. Even when I was doing 'The Bill,' I approached the work like it was a Hollywood classic such as 'Training Day' or 'Boyz n the Hood.' So to have worked with some of the greats I've admired, such as Forest Whitaker, Kathy Bates, Cuba Gooding Jr., etc., it warms me.

  

  Aml Ameen
  • World
  • Work
  • Training

• DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.

  

  David Ulevitch
  • Hood

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