John David Washington Quotes
Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same.
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I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.
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For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
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I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.
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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same.
