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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Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.
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I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
