Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

Lupita Nyong'o

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MotherGirlSchoolChildStoryGo

I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction.

Joel Osteen

LifeGodPeaceJoyBelieveGiving

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

Angie Harmon

ChildLongTeethTwoAttractiveBig

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

John Wooden

LateRulesThreeNeverTeammateHad

Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.

Steve Erickson

FamilyWifeTelevisionNowSheSit

Sometimes you see me on the pitch, and you think I'm playing on the street.

Riyad Mahrez

MeThinkYouSometimesStreetSee

I came from the theatre, which had given me opportunities in television as well as a film adaptation of my second play 'Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got The Will?' for MGM.

Del Shores

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I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

Chely Wright

TimeEatingYoungIndustryAlong

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

Cory Lidle

AirplaneFlyingFeelComfortableUp

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

Connie Britton

BirthdayMusicGirlRainBlueMe

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

Alice Walker

ThoughtDownGoSayWithoutGoing

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

Pierre Corneille

HonorMuchDisgraceDeservedNeither

A reverse mortgage is available to anyone who is at least 62 years old and owns a home outright, or has a small mortgage balance remaining.

Suze Orman

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