Kerry Washington Quotes
I like how people will post pictures of me with other women that I adore, hugging on red carpets, and say, 'See?' Are we so uncomfortable with love between two people of the same gender that we immediately label it as sexual? But I've never been bothered by the lesbian rumor. There's nothing offensive about it, so there's no reason to be offended.
Quotes to Explore
-
In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
-
I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
-
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
-
I have a very small public.
-
People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
-
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
-
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
-
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
-
When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
-
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
-
I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
-
I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
-
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
-
I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
-
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
-
A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
-
I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
-
I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
-
I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
-
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
-
I think music changes and it evolves.
-
I like how people will post pictures of me with other women that I adore, hugging on red carpets, and say, 'See?' Are we so uncomfortable with love between two people of the same gender that we immediately label it as sexual? But I've never been bothered by the lesbian rumor. There's nothing offensive about it, so there's no reason to be offended.
