Denzel Washington Quotes

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

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• Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Understanding

• I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Say
  • Conservative
  • Leather

• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Gods
  • Favourite
  • Too

• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Business
  • Tough
  • Idealist

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
  • Lose

• I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Writing
  • Research
  • Admit

• Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Chance

• I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Want
  • Know
  • Down

• I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• It's all about sound. It's that simple.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • About

• I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Good
  • Money
  • Job

• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Party
  • Problem

• I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Strong
  • Horse
  • Holidays

• I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Love
  • Football
  • Finish

• 'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Popular
  • Times

• What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Forever

• I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Party
  • Creativity

• If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • May
  • Party
  • Problem

• Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Why

• A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Environment

• Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Party