Kerry Washington Quotes
I've never been comfortable being a pawn. I work with brands where I feel like I can have my say and companies that I'm proud to be in a relationship with. Partnerships take a lot of time. If I am going to put my name and my face and my energy behind something, I want it to be authentic.

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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.
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Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other.
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When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
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We put a lot of pride into our work, and to have it show on Sundays is a testament to all the work we've put in.
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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
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I've never been comfortable being a pawn. I work with brands where I feel like I can have my say and companies that I'm proud to be in a relationship with. Partnerships take a lot of time. If I am going to put my name and my face and my energy behind something, I want it to be authentic.