David Oyelowo Quotes
I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I was born free.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
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Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
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I’m probably the only artist who has sold close to a million records from the trunk of my car.
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So I'm not even sure that he's President of the United States... neither are many of our military people now, who are going to court to ask the question 'Do we have to obey a man who is not qualified under the constitution.
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I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.
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I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.
