"When times are tough, people want to escape……" — John Ridley
"When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best."
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26 Quotes by John Ridley
John Ridley has 26 quotes on this site.
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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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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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For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during…
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
— Michele Bachmann
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
— Dennis Banks
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
— Jeff Bezos
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
— Ben Affleck
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
— Elayne Boosler
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
— Alton Brown
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