Burna Boy (Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu) Quotes

I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.

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• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Decisions

• I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Community
  • Prison
  • Him

• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Business
  • Numbers
  • Investing

• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Work
  • Past

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• I say I am stronger than fear.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fear
  • Stronger

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Speed
  • Endurance

• Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • World
  • Freedom

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Characters
  • Many

• I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Believe
  • Change

• When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • She
  • Me
  • Sick

• Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Good
  • Great
  • Simplicity

• You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Music
  • Long

• The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trying
  • Violence
  • Rights

• It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Love
  • Character
  • Fun

• Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Company
  • Aggressive
  • Sand

• I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

  

  Lauren Socha
  • Period
  • Theatre

• I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Writing

• I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.

  

  Burna Boy
  • Believe
  • Everything
  • Planning