David Oyelowo Quotes

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 1, 1976

Topics

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Liberals decided it's much better not to play outraged with me anymore. I sell lots of books that way.

Ann Coulter

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I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?

Andy Mineo

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People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

Rod Blagojevich

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Every fight, I try to get out there and set an example to show the rest of the world we have fighters from Australia, and we're for real, and we're here to stay.

Robert Whittaker

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I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' approach and build a shared sense of community and civic responsibility in San Francisco.

Ron Conway

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Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.

Martin Rees

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Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.

Mike McCready

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If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

Liza Minnelli

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The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.

Jon Ronson

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To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

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The market for religious apps is fiercely competitive; searching for 'bible' in the Apple App Store returns 5,185 results. But among all the choices, YouVersion's Bible, funded by LifeChurch.tv of Edmond, Oklahoma, seems to be the chosen one, ranking at the top of the list and boasting more than 641,000 reviews.

Nir Eyal

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