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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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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What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.
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I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
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It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important.
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More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
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It is really a great feeling to win a World Cup on your birthday.
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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.
