Idris Elba Quotes

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

Idris Elba

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 6, 1972

Topics

LivePeoplePhoneFirstUpVoices

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

John Cusack

WomenBestPurposeFunAmazingLose

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

Amanda Seyfried

BrandWantBecomePersonaCertainly

I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

Amanda de Cadenet

BusinessTrainingConversationGround

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Steven Curtis Chapman

GoodHomeMusicWifeMeSong

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Sidney Sheldon

MotivationTryHeroesEmotionalGive

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

Roger Ebert

LifeDieKnowPlanetOne ThingMuch

I don't try to worry about sounding like anybody because I know I have my own tone, my own sound. It's just about being honest in a song and trying to relate myself or how to basically break it down as simple as possible for someone to try to understand it. Not being too deep, not being too shallow at the same time.

Ro James

TimeMyselfSimpleSongDeepWorry

I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, 'Don't you think you'll need something to fall back on?' They acted as though creativity was completely normal.

Julia Cameron

MotherMusicArtCreativityCreative

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

Jose Andres

PassionInnovationBelieveTradition

I'm a teacher, but I'm really a healer.

Donovan

TeacherReallyHealer

I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again.

Christina Applegate

PeopleThinkProblemPersonHigh

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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