Hood Quotes - Page 9

• I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

  Pau Gasol

  Bullets, Way, Bricks

  ""I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis": an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurley, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.

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• I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

  Helen Dunmore

  Children, Black, Sitting

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• Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

  Frans de Waal

  Humanity, Wish, Robins

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• Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

  Jim Woodring

  Dream, Real, Cobras

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• You could easily play the guy as straight-up hood throughout the whole movie, the Imperial Courts, but writer and director Malik Vitthal envisioned a human being that has never been seen before in film: a black man in circumstances that he does not like, who is passionate - persistent - in turning it around.

  John Boyega

  Men, Guy, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence [Fishburne] and Angela [Dasset]do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood.

  Nia Long

  Trying, Actors, Saws

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm tryin' to build myself bigger than just Ace Hood, I'm tryin' to build myself as a bigger brand - open up clothing lines, colognes.

  Ace Hood

  Clothing Line, Lines, Aces

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood, but it is not a race-based experience - it is part of the artistic process.

  Nia Long

  Race, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.elle.com

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• As far as my single selections, over the years it's been a very essential part of my survival tactic, but I have no problem being able to jump on records with whoever people think is the rawest rapper in the game or number one or King or whatever they wanna name themselves, to be honest with you. It doesn't affect me, 'cause that's what I come from; I'm comfortable in that zone. But I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

  Pitbull

  Kings, Thinking, Rapper

  Source: djbooth.net

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• When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in the hood. And now the hood is a bit more accepting. Begrudgingly accepting, but definitely more accepting than 20 years ago when I was a little kid. That doesn't mean that anybody should stop fighting for equality just because people are begrudgingly a little more accepting.

  Talib Kweli

  Teenager, Mean, Kids

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• By waging the drug war and "getting tough" almost exclusively in the 'hood, we've managed to create a vast new racial undercaste in an astonishingly short period of time.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Drug, Tough

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Looks, Social

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

  Ridley Scott

  Robins, Togas, Robin Hood

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.

  Danny Brown

  People, Want, Neighborhood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

  Robert Barron

  Bob, Faces, Problem

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• I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

  Kevin Warsh

  Robins, Robin Hood, Feds

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• The other reason might be that you want to talk to voters when you've got seven primaries in seven days. Understand what's happened in this race - where we campaign actively in a state, and voters have the chance to see me directly, they check under the hood, and they kick the tires, when we don't have as much time.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Campaigns, Want

  Interview with Leon Harri, www.politico.com. February 11, 2008.

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• I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Mean, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

  Dennis Miller

  Foam, Giants, Mechanic

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• If I have to made a Daredevil movie, I will take a completely different direction. My vision of the character is much more a drama. There will be a 1st part in the child hood of Matt Murdock and the universe of Hell kitchen. Something in the universe of the first Rocky Balboa.

  Xavier Gens

  Children, Drama, Character

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• Music doesn't have to be your livelihood to make your 'hood lively.

  Mardy Grothe

  Lively, Livelihood

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• If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

  Rafael Benitez

  Riding, Littles, Red

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• A big reason I wanted to move [from North Carolina] to New York was to get rid of my car. But honestly, I miss just riding around the hood and having some friends get blunted and playing music for them.

  Travis Stewart

  Moving, Car, Missing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Cake, Expectations, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.

  ASAP Rocky

  Fashion, Looks, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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