Idris Elba Quotes
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
Ville Valo HIM -
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch -
Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran -
One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
Gabourey Sidibe -
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown -
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
Gareth Gates -
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig -
Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
Odette Annable -
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley -
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
Barry Sonnenfeld
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
Naomi Watts -
Only votes talk, everything else walks.
Dan Rather -
All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
Quavo Migos -
I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
Imelda May -
It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
Jackie Robinson
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
Dan Savage -
When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message. Our message has always been from a place of love.
Opal Tometi -
A black man would never dream of talking to the police high. That's a waste of weed. I'm serious. I mean, I'd be scared to talk to the police when I'm sleepy.
Dave Chappelle -
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
Abraham Verghese -
The less I talk about being black, the better.
Idris Elba