Daniel Kaluuya Quotes
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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Palestinian people are in love with life.
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.
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I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion-the two cannot live together.
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Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do-for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.
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I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
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The best mind-altering drug is truth.
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You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.
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You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost.
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I never let my politics supersede my manners.
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
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In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.
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I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
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For an actor to create a different look for every film is not easy.
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Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Giggs is the realest.
