Idris Elba Quotes
I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.Idris Elba
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie -
Of course I get hurt.
Jackie Chan -
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler -
When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
T-Pain -
I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
Gabriella Wilde -
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Laura Harring
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips -
You must always do what you feel is right.
Vidal Sassoon -
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
Damien Chazelle -
Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
Tananarive Due -
Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
Adam Green
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
Olin Miller -
I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
Gaby Hoffmann -
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
Earl Warren -
I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
J. B. Pritzker -
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
Rachel Kushner -
For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.
Debbie Ford -
My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
Hank Haney -
The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.
Albert Murray -
The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.
Bernard Madoff -
I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
Idris Elba