Dayo Okeniyi Quotes
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
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We definitely have a football mentality. My dad was a football player also, so just growing up, that's how it was.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
