Denzel Washington Quotes
I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.
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Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
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I've been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn't. And then I've thought, 'This movie's not going anywhere,' and it worked. The same thing with television shows.
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Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
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I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
