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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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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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.
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My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
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To see far is one thing, going there is another.
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I've put on makeup just for fun since I was a really little girl. Now I keep a look book for inspiration - with hair, makeup, beauty tips and products to try.
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I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.
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I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
