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Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

Lupita Nyong'o

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Father School Me High School Know

The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.

Jim Crace

Fear Home City Me Deep Enough

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

John Berger

Time Space You Breathing Dialogue

I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?'

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Community River Thought Pollution

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

Matt Drudge

Best Beginning Start Gossip News

There are cis women who are being attacked and called men because they are wearing makeup and because they are too tall, and they might have an Adam's apple. Once cis women start to realize it's not just harmful to trans women, then we'll start to come together more and attack this together. It sucks, but we're all under the patriarchy.

Angelica Ross

Women Men Together Start Makeup

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

Trey Parker

Myself Architecture Habit Building

There's nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That's the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn't really mourn for that - it's too disturbing, seems like a mistake.

Tom Reiss

Mistake Society Better Perfect Human

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Roger Kahn

Sports Man Baseball Early Lying

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Story True Write Going Whether

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Mignon McLaughlin

Humor Sense Of Humor Defense Against

It's hard to change someone's ideas when they might not even really consciously know that they're being racist, or have racist ideas, just because ballet has been this way for hundreds of years.

Misty Copeland

Change Ideas Someone Know Way Hard

It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that's been anchored in people for years now.

Liya Kebede

Life Beauty Challenge People Media