Idris Elba Quotes
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
