John Singleton Quotes

At heart, I'm a dude from South Central Los Angeles. We roll the way we roll because we had survival tactics; we had to learn how to adapt. That's just me.

John Singleton

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HeartMeLearnSurvivalAdaptWay

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

Robert Ingpen

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Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

Roger Zelazny

LifeEducationLearningThinkYou

I don't know if I owned a toothbrush until I was 19, maybe. I didn't come from stock that placed any importance on the toothbrush. But a couple of girls I met changed that. And I would do anything to get a girl to pay attention to me long enough that I could feel good about myself.

Rodney Crowell

GoodGirlMyselfMeFeel GoodFeel

When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn't have a personal life.

Mitski

LifePeopleMeFaceSomeoneTrying

I think it's healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.

Little Louie Vega

ThinkInterestingHealthyMoreMuch

Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because he's a calm, reasonable guy - but behind that, there has to be some fight. You have to be able to take a few punches and throw a few punches.

Dee Dee Myers

FightCalmYouWhyTalkHim

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

Christine Lahti

NowStageFilmWholeDifferentJust

God saved my life.

Brady Jandreau

LifeGodMy LifeSaved

The DJ still has the relationship with the people, I believe. I don't know to call the DJ 'the ambassadors' or what, but we still are connecting the dots, getting the good stuff and passing it on to the people. DJs still have relevance, even with the technology that elevates the DJ beyond being a selector.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

GoodTechnologyRelationshipPeople

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

Richard Dawkins

GodReligionUniversePhysicsLook

The fact that women are constantly supposed to be beautiful, gorgeous, and perfect all the time is something they have always had to live with. But now it's happening to men, too. There seems to be this imperative that you have to be hot or ripped or fit or healthy or whatever you want to call it.

Mark Strong

WomenLiveBeautifulTimeMenYou

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

Len Cariou

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