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 pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
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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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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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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway star and also sang opera.
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Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.
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I'm a huge Spike Lee fan. I saw 'Do The Right Thing' twice in the same night when it first came out and had long conversations with all my friends about the issues in it.
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Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle.
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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
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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.
