Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
I'm Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I've seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I'm Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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I'm Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I've seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I'm Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos.
