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.
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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.
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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.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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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.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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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.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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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.
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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.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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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.
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War is the normal state of the people.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I truly believe that America`s greatness and billions and billions of dollars of our wealth flows away because China doesn`t treat us fairly.
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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.
