David Oyelowo Quotes
We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
Quotes to Explore
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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It's real difficult to sing out in the elements at 2 in the morning in 35-degree weather while you're dancing in a sleeveless chiffon dress.
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It basically was the worst thing to be called as a businessman: to be falsely labelled an impostor.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.
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When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.
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We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
