David Harewood Quotes

I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it's not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I'm grateful for that.

David Harewood

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Dark
  • Name
  • Immigration

• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Think

• May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Live
  • May

• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
  • Person
  • Disagreeable

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

  

  Sampha
  • World
  • School
  • Cool

• I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Best
  • Hair
  • Never

• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Truth
  • Stop
  • Politics

• The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Truth
  • Health
  • Truth Is

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • American
  • Age
  • Want

• I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Lot

• Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Light
  • Peace
  • Dreams

• I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Deal
  • Quarterback
  • Sacking

• If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • God
  • Want

• Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel.

  

  Kiran Ahluwalia
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Work
  • Why
  • Want

• Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Up
  • Disappointment

• I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it's not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I'm grateful for that.

  

  David Harewood
  • Travel