Melina Matsoukas Quotes

I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of the women and the men who came before us who are black, and I'm proud of the women before me who are black and who have achieved so much, even though we have so much against us, and we don't have those doors opening for us every day.

Melina Matsoukas

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I have four boys and two girls, and the girls, they typically want you to draw princesses, Tinkerbell, Cinderella, things like that.

Steve Breen

YouWantTwoThingsCinderellaFour

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

Shirley Chisholm

WomanI AmSocietyFreeBlackThink

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

Jason Calacanis

WisdomPeopleProductMoreWebMake

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

Doug Liman

RespectThinkFriendsOpinionsPlay

You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan.

Chris Pratt

YourselfValueStartPlanningPlan

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Bryan Batt

LoveI AmSilverThingsMintTitles

Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're going to be alive.

Anthony Ray Hinton

TimeDeathMeBelieveProcessYou

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Anne Northup

FamilyMoneyHappyPeopleAlways

China wants control, and China will get control. That's their default modus operandi. Crypto-Tech is no different than the Internet and Web businesses.

William Mougayar

ControlInternetWillChinaWebGet

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Plato

LoveGodImpossibleNeedHungerOut

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Peter Bichsel

I AmNobodySaidWriteWriterKnew

Parents need to sit down with their boys and girls and tell them how to carry themselves and tell the boys how to respect women and respect yourself and know who you are.

Pepa

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