Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.
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I think it's a bit shocking for people when pop stars say anything out of the safe zone.
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We lived in Colorado, and my parents were outdoorsy mountain people. My father would always say, 'Go out and don't come back until you have something to show me.' Which meant he wanted me to come back with a scraped knee or an injury. When I went out to play, I felt like I'd better get hurt.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.
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I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.
