John Singleton Quotes

There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.

John Singleton

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PassionServiceMeSurviveCareer

In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat.

Matt Cain

LiveFoodCityYouFastKnow

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

Trishelle Cannatella

FamilyHomeComedyDoingCountry

The mainstream media and most of the political establishment are too quick to slander as 'nativist' the advocacy of barring of Islamist radicals from legal entry into the United States.

Tom Tancredo

LegalPoliticalMediaQuickAdvocacy

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

Robert Fripp

PeopleActionExpectationsYouGroup

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

Roberto Benigni

LifeDreamsMeMy LifeDreamMovies

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

Rupert Murdoch

LoveChallengeNew YorkInfluenceUp

My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.

Coy Bowles

FatherHandsAnythingCarpenterJust

You're born with a certain love of something. Music was my first love, and that's the world I work from. Growing up, I was surrounded by artists, so my upbringing supported this lifestyle.

Condola Rashad

WorkLoveMusicGrowing UpWorld

Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.

Winnie Byanyima

WorldGovernanceInterestJustNeeds

'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.

Pete Hamill

LifeDailyMeSurviveMy LifeNews

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

Shawn Fanning

SupportPeopleThinkTryingSoftware

I've always admired people like Donal McCann. He wasn't a household name, but if he put his name to something, you were guaranteed a good yarn at the very least.

Liam Cunningham

GoodPeopleNameYouAlwaysLike

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