John Boyega Quotes

There's a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere.

John Boyega

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• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Just
  • saw

• You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Thought
  • My Life

• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Life
  • May
  • Earth

• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Way
  • Walking
  • Cognitive

• Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Books

• It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Vision
  • Doing
  • Equal

• You must know what you are capable of.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • You
  • Know
  • Capable

• A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • She
  • Girl

• I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Always

• Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Thanks

• I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.

  

  Faith Hill
  • House
  • Water
  • Drink

• Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are global - no central bank required, and any machine can speak the language.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Free
  • Language
  • Speak

• 'Artemis Entreri is dead. He died in the Protector's House in Memnon, chasing ghosts.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • House

• Worst of all was the blizzard. People from the east or west coasts of America may think they have seen a blizzard. Likely they have not. It is almost exclusively a phenomenon of the plains, and got its name on the plains. It entailed wind-driven snow so dense and temperatures so cold that anyone lost in them on the shelterless plains was as good as dead.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

  

  James Larkin
  • Men
  • Broken
  • Blow

• Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Love
  • Duties
  • Secret Emotions

• Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Reading
  • Value

• There's a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere.

  

  John Boyega