Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

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• I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.

  

  Jack Lowden
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• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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• Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Education
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• I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
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• You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

  

  K. D. Lang
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• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
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• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
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• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Politics
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  • Fairness

• He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

  

  James Hogg
  • Life
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• Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
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• You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Perfect
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• Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep, As on an elevation, and behold The academies like structures in a mist.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Life