Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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Imagination needs to be fed.
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There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.
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For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening of the 1977 'Star Wars' movie was possibly the only time I've seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.
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I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be.
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A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
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I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.
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I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.
