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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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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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say." "I'd rather have something to say.
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I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.
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Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.
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As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
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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.
