Denzel Washington Quotes
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
Quotes to Explore
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
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We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
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I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.
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The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
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The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
