Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK?
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You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.
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I feel like you kind of have to live life to its fullest in order to be a good actor. Draw on experiences. The more experiences the better, and I really have had a lot of experiences in life, even at my young age.
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When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.
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I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.
