David Oyelowo Quotes
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.David Oyelowo
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
Wanda Sykes -
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
Ogden Nash -
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
W. Eugene Smith -
It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper -
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
Earl Warren -
While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
Ed Pastor
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Frances Wright -
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
Patrick Kane -
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
Young Jeezy -
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood
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'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
Adam McKay -
Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
Barbara Demick -
You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
Dan Gilbert -
In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.
Edmund Morgan -
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
Abhishek Bachchan -
But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.
Ted Demme
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
Sachin Tendulkar -
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
Adam McKay -
I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
Liz Phair -
We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
Dane Cook -
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
David Oyelowo