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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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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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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Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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There is a revolution taking place in school and college campuses in India, and particularly in Kerala, much like the one that sowed the seeds of Silicon Valley in the U.S.
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The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.
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One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.
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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.
