Burna Boy (Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu) Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong.
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I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.
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New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.
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'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.
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I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.
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Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.
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I was a very shy child.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
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I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
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And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.
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Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.
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As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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I'm just a human whose skill is making music.
