Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

Lupita Nyong'o

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• Film has to describe and show.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Film
  • Show
  • Describe

• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Character
  • Human
  • Analysis

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• We've been probably to some degree too successful.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Successful
  • Degree
  • Some

• Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Now
  • Voting

• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Kind
  • Find
  • Principles

• Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Mind

• If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Song
  • Bed
  • Rocks

• It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Focus
  • Tough
  • Butterfly

• I've never been a waitress, hostess, bartender or any of the typical side jobs you'd expect an actor to have. This is partly because I've always been afraid of dropping plates on customer's heads.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Always
  • Never
  • Customer

• Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Page

• We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Foundation
  • Cup

• Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • See

• To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Character
  • Soul

• You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons 'The work was free. Keep it so.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Work
  • Free

• I am an extremely laidback person when it comes to 'looking hot.'

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Person
  • Looking
  • Hot

• Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find something that you really care about. Therefore, now I'm emphasizing developing my own projects and writing my own screenplays, so that I can do exactly what I like to do.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Involved

• If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

  

  Paul Weyrich
  • Fall

• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o