Djimon Hounsou Quotes

#1. Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

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#2. Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

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#3. My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

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#4. If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

Hudson Taylor

#5. If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

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#6. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

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#7. The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

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#8. It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her freckles came off.

George Carlin

#9. Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.

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#10. I think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

Mark Lippert

#11. I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

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#12. I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

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#13. While edifying ourselves, we put our life in order and build it

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

Dane Cook

#15. Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

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#16. AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.

John Green

#17. A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.

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#18. It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.

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#19. One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.

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#20. School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

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#21. I knew that once I went looking, I'd need a man like Dad - dependable and respectful toward women, and not into porn or weird rich old guys who bought teenage kids' underwear.

A.S. King

#22. Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

Walter Jon Williams

#23. Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there.

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#24. We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

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#25. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#26. America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

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#27. A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

George Bernard Shaw

#28. Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

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#29. You can conquer this world only one way: by loving everything, everybody, and the world.

Debasish Mridha

#30. I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

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#31. The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.

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#32. When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

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#33. I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

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#34. You know, the only place in America where the millionaires and billionaires are predominantly liberal is here in Hollywood.

Bill Maher

#35. Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.

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#36. Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

Hanif Kureishi

#37. Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some will love it and some will hate it, but there will always be at least one reader who needed it and that's all that matters!

S.L. Morgan

#38. As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

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#39. I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

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