David Oyelowo Quotes
If my history, my indisputable British history, has never been visited, where does that put me? If we are only going to look at things that need a revisit, you are wiping me out of this country's history. That is unacceptable to me.David Oyelowo
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson -
This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
Carli Lloyd -
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
Gary Hamel -
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
A. S. Byatt -
'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
Barbra Streisand -
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
Paris Hilton -
I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
Tavi Gevinson -
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden -
My characters hope for better lives.
Octavia E. Butler -
Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
Venerable Bede
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
Parker Palmer -
Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy... I look for... Riddler.
Adam West -
Ted and I had history,” Jake said. “We were in love. This hurts all the time. I never stop thinking about how much this hurts.” Zoe stretched out her arms and pretended to play a goddamn violin.
Carolyn Mackler -
If my history, my indisputable British history, has never been visited, where does that put me? If we are only going to look at things that need a revisit, you are wiping me out of this country's history. That is unacceptable to me.
David Oyelowo