David Oyelowo Quotes

There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am.

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• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

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• I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

  

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• In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

  

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• I want the single player experience.

  

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• We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

  

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• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

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• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

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• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

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• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

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• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

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• Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  

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• In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

  

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• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

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• I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

  

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• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

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• I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.

  

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• And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

  

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• When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.

  

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• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

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• I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.

  

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• There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am.

  

  David Oyelowo
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