David Oyelowo Quotes
We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.

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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
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I am trying every genre.
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I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
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Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.
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Anger eats up years faster than happiness, chile. You better get on with your living and forget ’bout that hurt.
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A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.
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I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
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I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.
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We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.