Carmen Ejogo Quotes

One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

Carmen Ejogo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 1, 1974

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Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself.

John McEnroe

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I know we can find a bipartisan response to pressing challenges - like repairing, modernizing and adding to the infrastructure on which we all rely. I know it because I've seen it happen in my own state of Minnesota.

Amy Klobuchar

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I have learned that being a politician is not an easy job. My father was trying to make progress in the peace treaty with the Soviet Union. At that time, he was suffering from last-stage cancer, but he visited Moscow in the bitter cold. I learned from my father that you may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment.

Shinzo Abe

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Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

Roald Dahl

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I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

Ruby Wax

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I have no tax delinquency problem, nor have I ever.

Matt Bevin

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I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president.

Mitt Romney

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Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.

Miles Davis

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You can get fired from any job at any time.

Jorge Garcia

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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

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Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

William Godwin

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It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.

Pico Iyer

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