Idris Elba Quotes

It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

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• I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • Critic

• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Great
  • Coffee
  • Smoking

• I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Job

• That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Party
  • Language
  • Stronger

• Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Age
  • Space
  • Start

• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Day
  • Settle

• As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Child

• I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Great
  • Dangerous
  • Artists

• Every sport has its own cast of characters.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Own
  • Every
  • Cast

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Country
  • Today
  • Potential

• Sleep is the best meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Place
  • Achieve
  • Resolution

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• What you see is what you get. I mean, we don't try to groom ourselves any certain way.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • Way
  • Ourselves
  • Groom

• Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Clothes
  • Buttons
  • Biographies

• If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Play
  • Things
  • Born

• Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Night
  • Party

• An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

  

  Jacques Prevert
  • Life
  • Night
  • Cool

• It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Night
  • Feel
  • Pressure