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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My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
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What's that comment about every actor being a waiter who is out of a job? I did a lot of waitressing, and I loved it because I love getting to know people from different places.
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I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the movie, and just being in New York sometimes and seeing the marquees and everything like that, I'm like, 'I really, really have to go experience a Broadway play.'
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.
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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.
