Denzel Washington Quotes
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
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I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'
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When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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In Selma as elsewhere we seek and pray for peace. We seek order. We seek unity. But we will not accept the peace of stifled rights, or the order imposed by fear, or the unity that stifles protest. For peace cannot be purchased at the cost of liberty.
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I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.
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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
