Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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• I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Together
  • Church

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Resistance

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • You
  • Crazy

• When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Different
  • Learning
  • Myself

• Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Stage
  • Loves
  • Pretend

• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Wood

• Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Never
  • Old
  • Judges

• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Want
  • Government
  • Quality

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Start
  • Company
  • Hotel

• I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Good
  • Men
  • Professional

• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • World
  • Music
  • Reading

• I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Literature

• It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

  

  E. B. White
  • Great
  • Wonder
  • Choices

• If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.

  

  Jennifer Pahlka
  • Work
  • Simple

• Due to success I started losing friends.

  

  Ace Hood
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Losing

• I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.

  

  Chic Murray
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Cowboy

• Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

  

  John Burdett
  • People
  • World

• We have had philosophies, we have ideologies, we have so many kinds of enterprises but despite that there are so many differences and the differences are having larger and larger gaps. If it is the truth, it has to be the truth for everyone. Everyone has to say: "This is The Truth". But it has to be the Absolute Truth. If it is not the Absolute Truth than what we believe into is not the reality. And this is the main reason why everything in the name of God, Divinity, everything has failed so far because it is not substantiated by reality.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Philosophy

• It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor