John Ridley Quotes

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

Latins are macho, they hate gringos and they hate gringos’ wives. What else do you want to know?

American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

There's always something fishy about the French.

I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

For you, O Italy, hatred of the French, under whatever standard or mask they present themselves, must be the single and fundamental basis of your political existence.

Generally speaking, they [Americans] are not a people we should be proud to acknowledge as our relations.

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

There is only one single constant and general idea hereabouts—hatred of the French and aversion for dependence.

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

Working in the Middle East, daily I face the questions, disbelief, and accusations about how Americans could violate the human rights which they once championed.

I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want to be.

People say they don't want to call a call-centre in India. Why not? They're doing the same job - you just don't like Indians.

Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.

When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

For a lot of Croats, if you're a Serb, they don't want to associate with you. It's just stupid.

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.

American public opinion sees Arabs as terrorists and has the desert-man image about them. I wish the Americans would see Arabs and Muslims the way I see them... but Arabs are losing the public relations battle in the United States.

There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily spooked or driven to cynicism - the country is diverse but, paradoxically, extremely insular.

All Israelis think Arabs steal cars.