Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

Lupita Nyong'o

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• I'm afraid to fail again.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Afraid
  • Fail
  • Again

• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • America
  • Doing
  • Wonderful

• We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • May
  • Free
  • Renaissance

• They say women and music should never be dated.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Never

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Different
  • Vision

• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Suffering

• Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Responsibility
  • Vote
  • Voting

• The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Art
  • Age
  • Man

• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Important
  • Risk
  • Gun

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Commitment
  • Mission

• The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Will
  • Open
  • Continue

• I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Believe
  • Opinion
  • Service

• A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

  

  Dawn Staley
  • People
  • Success
  • inspirational

• I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Thanks

• In reading Scripture, we feel in the presence of Him unto whose eyes all things are naked and open.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • Eyes
  • Scripture
  • Open

• In 2012, when Mitt Romney named Russia as our greatest geopolitical foe, Democrats scoffed and accused Republicans of trying to ignite a new Cold War.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Trying
  • War
  • Cold

• I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come.

  

  Cris Judd
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Drama