Idris Elba Quotes

Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

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• I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Amazing
  • Gift
  • Uncle

• I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Career
  • Feel
  • Young

• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Change

• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Want

• We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Moving
  • Opportunities

• At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Better
  • Nutrition

• When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Long
  • Art

• We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Vices
  • Our
  • Ladder

• Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Education
  • Effort
  • Struggle

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Know
  • Chance
  • Same

• This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • More

• I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Beginning
  • End

• After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Bad
  • Singing

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Care
  • Years
  • 100 Years

• Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Years
  • Beach
  • Now