David Harewood Quotes
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
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Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
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In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.
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My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.
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I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
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'The first lesson on Roke, and the last is, Do what is needful! And no more.''The lessons in between, then, must consist in learning what is needful.''They do.'
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My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.
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For any humanist such an incident would cause indescribable grief. But at the same time creating disturbances (ashanti), indiscipline, and expressing outrage (akrosh) is not the solution.
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And that’s another reason I don’t want contact between your species and mine. You’re all Crazy Eddies. You think every problem has a solution.
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Honest work is much better than a mansion.
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If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.
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My first acting lessons were Shakespeare. The first time I ever started working with a coach was doing scenes from 'Measure for Measure,' which were tough dramatic scenes. And then 'Taming of the Shrew,' which required comedic timing. And that's the kind of stuff I love.
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All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
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I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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That's the problem with soaps, of course. The stories never end. They can go on and on and on.
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Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.
