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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
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  • Black

• 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.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Change
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
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• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
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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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  

  Vera Miles
  • Men
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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.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
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• Glamorized... am I glamorous?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Glamorous
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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
  • Writing
  • Space
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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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • True
  • Labor
  • Source

• 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.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Sleep
  • Imagination
  • Partner

• 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
  • Hope
  • Sun
  • Sky

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

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Enjoy
  • Show
  • Industrial

• I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

  

  Charlie Haden
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• Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.

  

  Bruce Smith
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• One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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  • Career

• I guess there are people who are like, 'Here's one thing, and I'm gonna do it,' but I can't. I don't have the capacity to have that singular focus. I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.

  

  Ken Marino
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• Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Up
  • Character
  • Preparation

• The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

  

  James Rebhorn
  • Life
  • World
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• We socialists are freer because we are more fulfilled; we are more fulfilled because we are freer. The skeleton of our complete freedom is already formed. The flesh and the clothing are lacking; we will create them.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Freedom

• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Price
  • Willing
  • Engage

• A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

  

  J. D. McClatchy
  • Years
  • Secret
  • Ironic

• 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
  • City
  • Side
  • Makes