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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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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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
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We need a presidency which acts and protects us.
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Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.
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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.
