David Harewood Quotes

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

David Harewood

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• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Progress
  • Step

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Look
  • Hide
  • Eighteen

• The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Years
  • Been
  • Iceland

• I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Period

• Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • More
  • Intelligence

• Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Free
  • Yourself
  • Tradition

• In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • World
  • Rules
  • 21st Century

• 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.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Family
  • Parents

• I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Good
  • Old
  • Nostalgia

• Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• '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.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • War
  • Future

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Grief

• 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.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Crazy

• Honest work is much better than a mansion.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Work

• Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli

• The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Law

• In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

  

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • Way
  • Discovery
  • Fact

• From the beginning, my songwriting was from writing in a journal; it was completely unfiltered. I don't know if I really meant to show everyone this side of me, but when I saw how people resonated to the things I was saying, some of the questions I was asking, I realized I was not alone.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • People
  • Writing
  • Alone

• I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

  

  James Lapine
  • Eyes

• Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

  

  David Harewood