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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I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.
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Fragrance is, to me, something very personal; because it is something you wear every day, it should represent you and be an extension of your style.
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I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.
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Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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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.
