Kerry Washington Quotes
I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I will keep working hard!
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.
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I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.
