"Fact is, awards shows were never really about……" — John Ridley
"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."
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John Ridley
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26 Quotes by John Ridley
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Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not…
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Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when…
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Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning…
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Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our…
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Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
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When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering…
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Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
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Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things…
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If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of…
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There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the…
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Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only…
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While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like…
— Albert Brooks
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High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year…
— Kyle Chandler
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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
— Ray Charles
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You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I…
— Cher
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That best academy, a mother's knee.
— James Russell Lowell
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The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The…
— David Gill
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain…
— Baruch Spinoza
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no…
— Gustave Courbet
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