Denzel Washington Quotes
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left off. It all moves forward. Your work as an actor was part of your work as a dancer as well. It was dialogue through movement.
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It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.
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I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
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I would say that we like to disguise our heartbreaks with happier melodies.
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Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and - I have to say it - in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge, but they remember well.
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I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
