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.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • World
  • Community
  • Internet

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Together
  • Space

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
  • Will

• There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Great
  • Tired
  • Sister

• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Done
  • Film
  • Snow

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Like
  • Well

• There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

  

  Edward Kennedy
  • Up
  • Good
  • War

• It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Tools
  • Plants
  • Human Disease

• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Support
  • Mom
  • Kid

• If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • People
  • Up
  • Dad

• I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

  

  Dayo Okeniyi
  • Dad
  • Mom