Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.
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I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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I love to be surprised.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
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I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His direct will, which is good and perfect with no evil in it.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.
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Moral solipsism.
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I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
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Don’t ignore big problems, and don’t try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.
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I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald.
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I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.
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I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.
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That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.
