Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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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.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
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The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.
