Daniel Kaluuya Quotes

All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.

Daniel Kaluuya

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Same
  • Said

• We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• More modern poetry is written than read.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • More
  • Modern

• The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Impact

• We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • City
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• I still have nightmares about taking tests.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Still
  • Tests
  • Nightmares

• Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Bond

• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Just

• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Ignorance

• There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Passion

• I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope

• My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Different
  • Important

• During the holidays, I often see my sisters, who still, even after all these years, can't always seem to agree with me. They take silly, indefensible positions, such as denying that my parents loved me more because I was the better child.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Silly

• I haven't seen 'Room' yet. People tell me 'Room' is such an amazing film, but ever since I had a kid, I just can't. I can't do it. It's not fun. It's not a place I want to be.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • People
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Idea
  • Confused
  • Invention

• All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya