John Ridley Quotes

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.

John Ridley

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Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

Joe Manchin

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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

Andrew Young

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It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.

Andy Van Slyke

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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Socrates

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The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had to turn and look over their right shoulders to see home plate.

Steve Rushin

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I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

Martin Scorsese

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I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

Louis C. K.

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I can go without make-up and go fishing with my dad; other times, I buy pink shoes and shop for dresses.

Jordan Pruitt

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The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

Don Winslow

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My father was a manual worker.

Diane Abbott

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Too much collagen will damage the skin. You will get collagen overload.

Chris Toumazou

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I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

Alison Jackson

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