Burna Boy (Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu) Quotes

I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I wanted to put it on the map.

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• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

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• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
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• When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

  

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• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

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• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

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• I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

  

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• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  

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• Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

  

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• Glamorized... am I glamorous?

  

  Candice Bergen
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• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
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• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

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• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

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• I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

  

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• The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

  

  Ram Charan
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• It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.

  

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• Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

  

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• The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

  

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• Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead:-The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

  

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• We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives

  

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• That's something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It's so important.

  

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• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  

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• When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.

  

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• Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.

  

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• I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I wanted to put it on the map.

  

  Burna Boy
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