David Oyelowo Quotes

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

Joe Jamail

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I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.

Jenna Elfman

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There's a bit of me that always feels like, 'What's next? How can I get better?'

John David Washington

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In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.

Amy Lee

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I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

Toussaint Louverture

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I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

Tom Scholz

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I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and I used to get very irritated because when people heard that you came from the suburbs, they had this notion that it was very un-cool to come from there.

Ronald Frame

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Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

Jayson Blair

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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Joseph Conrad

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I'm the youngest of three boys. Both of the older two are very heterosexual, football-watching, married, child-rearing, cornfed Midwestern guys.

Jonathan Van Ness

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Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

Dr. Seuss

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