John Ridley Quotes

I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.

John Ridley

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CarMeSorrySomeoneWantSitting

We have a problem in the industry, I believe. This whole 'free' issue. The television industry doesn't have it, the movie industry doesn't have it, but the record industry has it.

Jimmy Iovine

FreeBelieveProblemTelevision

Law is a bottomless pit.

John Arbuthnot

LawPitBottomless

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

Melissa Etheridge

AloneRoadLonelyRock StarYou

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

Maynard James Keenan

LifeThinkMediaMysteryGlamour

If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.

Melanie Mayron

WorkGoodHomeChildrenWomanGuilt

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

Max von Sydow

MoreActBeingSinnerLikeFelt

I used to love the 'Star Trek' movies, 'Wrath of Khan' and stuff like that. Loved those movies when I was a kid. And 'Star Wars' obviously was hands-down probably - I mean I had the sheets. I was a big fan of that.

Michael Ealy

LoveLovedMoviesMeanKidBig

Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Mickey Rourke

Getting OlderYouCareerLivingBeen

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

Don McLean

CreationLivingThreadPositionHeld

I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.

Chris Stapleton

TimeWritingCountryEdgeKnowPop

Some in the bitcoin community have always taken an anti-government, anti-fiat, anti-bank approach to their philosophy. Ripple takes the orthogonal side of each of those.

Brad Garlinghouse

CommunityPhilosophyRippleAlways

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Anne Sexton

LifeDangerousWithoutEvenWars

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