Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

Lupita Nyong'o

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: March 1, 1983

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That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

Jimmy Iovine

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Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

John Fogerty

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Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

John Cusack

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I'm Greek-American, and I come from an immigrant-type background, and Greek-American parents want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. Because that's how you make money, and it's very respectable.

Steve Zissis

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I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.

Trey Gowdy

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I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Livy

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I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

Chris Paul

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Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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I am a grizzly New Yorker.

Phoebe Robinson

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I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.

Prince

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My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Susan Isaacs

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