Kerry Washington Quotes
I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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When I shaved part of my head in 2007, I was not an anticipating the grow-out process.
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We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
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There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
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I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't.
