Kerry Washington Quotes
I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
-
I have played cricket on my own terms.
-
I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
-
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
-
I don't like possessions.
-
There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
-
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
-
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
-
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
-
I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
-
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
-
My favorite animal is steak.
-
The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
-
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
-
The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
-
At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
-
Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
-
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
-
I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it's up to us to find solutions today so that we don't keep passing our problems on.
-
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
-
I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
-
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
-
I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.
