Singleton Quotes

I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the flexibility to what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any times. ~ Henry Earl Singleton

I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too. ~ Henry Earl Singleton

Good hitters don't become intimidated. They become infuriated. ~ Ken Singleton

Human individuals and human organizations typically have preferences over resources that are not well represented by an "unbounded aggregative utility function". A human will typically not wager all her capital for a fifty-fifty chance of doubling it. A state will typically not risk losing all its territory for a ten percent chance of a tenfold expansion. [T]he same need not hold for AIs. An AI might therefore be more likely to pursue a risky course of action that has some chance of giving it control of the world. ~ Nick Bostrom

A lot of time has been spent looking for just a hint of how Jimmy Palao and the Original Creole band sounded. The answer has been right under our nose. As we listen to the music of that day we hear the remnants of Jimmy Palao's Original Creole Band. We do not hear the music that he would have recorded with the Original Creole Band but we hear the music just as he wished us to hear it … as he freely gave way to the concept of developing the free form of Jazz … that is to let others be heard and display their musical talent. It wasn't his music from his instrument that he wanted heard. He wanted us to take in the greats as their sounds developed. After all that is why Jazz… is Jazz… ~ Joan Singleton

I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight. ~ George Singleton

I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies. ~ George Singleton

I try not to let other people's problems problem me. ~ J. Richard Singleton

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible. ~ John Green

Additional Prevention Measures ~ Kenneth Singleton

It seems as though time stands still or is frozen in your memory when you meet the love of your life. Your heart sets it sights on that individual it doesn't consult with your mind…nothing else exist. It is as though in that single moment there is no one else but the two of you in the universe. ~ Joan Singleton

That's crazier than a boatload of prostitutes! ~ J. Richard Singleton

I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories. ~ George Singleton

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school. ~ J. Richard Singleton

I'd rather just slip on my halo of flies and stay here, if you don't mind. ~ Dave Franklin

I'm a competitive guy. ~ John Singleton

Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world. ~ John Singleton

Bored is a four-letter word. ~ Jill M. Singleton

I seem to feel ashamed of going out and getting merry - I find it oddly humiliating - but I'm quite happy to sit here like some dipsomaniac and become maudlin. For me, that is cool behaviour. Once you realise you're going to be on your own for the next few decades, it seems as pleasurable a way as any to pass the years. ~ Dave Franklin

'Baby Boy' is one of my favourite films, and Tyrese keeps telling everybody we're going to make a sequel. I mean, we have a story right now but we don't know where we're going to take it. ~ John Singleton

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle. ~ John Singleton

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman. ~ John Singleton

Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all. ~ George Singleton

I guess we all travel through life in a haze of sorts. A fog. The people we only meet in the fog we allow ourselves to lose because it's not our fault. It's the fog's. The people we latch onto - they become our friends. It was my friendship with Ethan that took me out of the fog. ~ J. Richard Singleton

Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously. ~ Ice Cube

Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses we reflected on aspects of business. Our own conclusion was that the key was cash flow. ~ Henry Earl Singleton

I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything! ~ Zutty Singleton

If there's one thing I know about women, it's that they have vaginas. ~ J. Richard Singleton

The sky is beautiful, long after the sun has set. ~ Justine Singleton

It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work. ~ John Singleton

I love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles. ~ J. Richard Singleton

I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet. ~ John Singleton Copley

All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing. ~ Daisy Donovan

There are plenty of atheists in foxholes. What I don't see are Christians in foxholes. If a Christian soldier takes a bullet to the knee, he will undoubtedly first call for a medic, not a priest. Reliance on god is typically only available when a problem can be ignored without discomfort or when the problem belongs to others (where it can be ignored without discomfort). When the chips are down, like when you have a serious illness or you've been shot or you're at war, even the most devout Christians rely on humans (doctors or other soldiers) even though they'll swear up and down that it's god helping them. ~ Sam Singleton

You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened. ~ J. Richard Singleton

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role. ~ George Singleton

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write. ~ George Singleton

The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don't get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it's sunny, we stand in the sun. When it's cold, we stand in the cold. ~ J. Richard Singleton

Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things. ~ Dave Franklin

Try not to let life get in the way, of what's important ~ Joanne Singleton

Here I was with the guy I maybe-loved, relaxing by the ocean with salty crisp breezes and blue-gray sea curving into a for-ever horizon. We even had background music to add to the romantic ambience. And except for the "can't kiss because he's my brother" thing, this was the perfect romantic moment. ~ Linda Joy Singleton

Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is, chucking kangaroo heads on the barbie as they read their awful bush poetry. ~ Dave Franklin

When are you going to tell me?" I held up the silver charm. "About this?"

"It's a horseshoe."

"Already figured that out - but why did you send it with Dagger?"

"So you wouldn't have to wait."

"Are you sure it didn't have anything to do with interrupting my visit with Josh?"

"Would I do that?" he said with a wicked grin.

Of course he would, but I didn't say that. Instead I asked him how he found the charm. ~ Linda Joy Singleton

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty. ~ George Singleton

Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather see injected with bleach. ~ Dave Franklin

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else. ~ Helen Fielding

I love animals, especially with barbeque sauce. ~ J. Richard Singleton

Every time you make a contribution to an organization purported searching for a "cure,' such as the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the United Way, or any other such institution, you are helping maintain the status quo. Plus, you are helping researchers torture, usually for years and always for no reason, millions of helpless, innocent animals. ~ Paige Singleton

A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded. ~ Ken Singleton

I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized. ~ Henry Earl Singleton

One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner. ~ George Singleton

Los Angeles is a city made up of refugees from better cities. ~ J. Richard Singleton

Old people only say that life happens quickly to make themselves feel better. The truth is that it all happens in tiny increments like now now now now now now and it only takes twenty to thirty consecutive nows to realize that you're aimed straight at a bench in Singleton Park. Fair play though, if I was old and had forgotten to do something worthwhile with my life, I would spend those final few years on a bench in the botanical gardens, convincing myself that time is so quick that even plants – who have no responsibilities whatsoever – hardly get a chance to do anything decent with their lives except, perhaps, produce one or two red or yellow flowers and, with a bit of luck and insects, reproduce. If the old man manages to get the words father and husband on his bench plaque then he thinks he can be reasonably proud of himself. ~ Joe Dunthorne

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich ~ John Green

Life.... It's better than the alternative. ~ J. Richard Singleton

To Hate or Be Great

To Hate or Be Great~
Which one is your fate?
You're mad and I'm glad,
My life won't be sad.

Raging with jealousy~
Blind, yet won't see.
The time you wasted,
Victory never tasted.

Fighting against the freed,
A heart, as black as coal.
Seeking to destroy the soul,
That's purposed with goals.


Without a "Vision" people perish,
Create things that you cherish.
Begin to turn your world around,
Come out of the lost... Be found!

Surrendering all... without cost,
Knowledge, Wisdom is boss.
A Life that's wonderful... No Doubt!
"Be Great"... It's what, I'm about! ~ Singleton Tate

If you could talk to God, He wouldn't be God. ~ J. Richard Singleton

Sometimes answers are hard to realize ... "Because people spend years looking for deep and complicated answers or hidden messages. I guess a complicated answer would make the subject a lot more interesting. Some years ago, when I tried to sort through the deeper motivations of someone close to me, I was told that "I'm really not that deep or complicated. What you see is what you get. I keep it real. ~ Joan Singleton

Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism. ~ Robert J. Flaherty

All events and people are set in place for special souls to enter this world at a certain place and time. They follow a direct path and no matter what the circumstance they can't be stopped until their mission is complete. They go against all the odds. Everything is suddenly set in motion, the correct people, the right moment and with a driving force they have an lasting impact that will bring a change in the world. We have witnessed this phenomenon time after time. ~ Joan Singleton

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. ~ John Singleton

I really took filmmaking very seriously ... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies. ~ John Singleton

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is. ~ John Green

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice- ~ Michael Palmer

[Truman] didn't want to fight the guy, whatever he was - alien, vampyr or douchebag. ~ J. Richard Singleton

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. ~ John Green

It's good to buy a large company with fine businesses when the price is beaten down over worry about one problem. ~ Henry Earl Singleton

I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old. ~ John Singleton

Animals are very spiritual creatures and have evolved to a higher plane than humans. Cola was honored with the position of Comforter. Usually that work goes to cats or ferrets... ~ Linda Joy Singleton

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. ~ John Singleton

I Dream I am from a clash of Color, From an idea of love, modeled for others' perception. I see me as I am, but am hidden from others' views. I am who I am, but a living contradiction to my peers. I see life as a blessing, a gift granted to me. Why should my tint describe me? Why should my culture degrade me? Why should the ignorance of another conjure my presence? Too many times I've been disappointed by the looks, By the sneers and misconceptions of the people who don't get me, Who don't understand why it hurts. I dream of a place of glory and freedom, Of losing the weight of oppression on my back. I dream of the enlightenment of people, Of the opening of their eyes. I dream for acceptance, And for the blessing of feeling special just once. One moment of glory . . . for the true virtue in my life. For the glimmer of freedom, and a rise in real pride. ~ Glenn E. Singleton