Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.

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• I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Reading
  • Text

• I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Try
  • Just

• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Cooking

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Film

• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Government
  • Advertising

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Man
  • Joy
  • Watch

• When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • God
  • Man
  • Strong

• It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • First
  • Safety
  • Strive

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Together
  • Partnerships

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges, and there is a lot of great banter between them. Meanwhile, in Arthur, Merlin has a friend he can really rely on. Merlin knows that when it comes the crunch, Arthur will always do the right thing.

  

  Bradley James
  • Great
  • Friend

• I've been singing one kind of genre for a long time but have always tried to push to new auras about picking new songs or the same kind of genre but trying to sing it differently, treating it differently.

  

  Arijit Singh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • People
  • Progress

• In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

  

  Ken Burns

• We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

  

  Gene Cernan
  • God
  • Hope
  • Peace

• If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • People