David Oyelowo Quotes

Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

John Bolton

UnitedOnlyWhoUnited StatesStates

Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.

Andrea Riseborough

YouKnowSometimesWantNeedBreak

Make sure you are safe, and never ever put yourself in a compromising situation, but once that is checked off the list, I think it's really important for us to remember that someone needs us, and that your act of giving/helping/doing can truly become an act of grace once you get out of your head.

Meghan Markle

YourselfGraceThinkSomeoneYou

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

John McCain

TodayExperienceKnowServeHer

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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I didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.

Roger Taylor

YouSeriouslyThingsImagineTake

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

Rufus Sewell

LifeMoneyMeRestMy LifeKnow

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

TruthHappyBe HappyLyingOutside

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

Jon Watts

WritingEnergyStoryMomentsMy Own

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

Christopher Love

MenSoulHeavenBringHeSouls

I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.

Conor Oberst

MusicTimeRealityCareerNowPoor

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

William J. Clinton

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