David Oyelowo Quotes
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.
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My fiancee's the one that's picture worthy.
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I don't even know what a hashtag is. You don't turn a hashtag into a movement - people turn things into a movement.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.
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One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.
