John David Washington Quotes

There's a bit of me that always feels like, 'What's next? How can I get better?'

John David Washington

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• Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Opinion

• No one expected me to become a champion.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Me
  • Champion
  • Become

• President Obama has contempt for real money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • Money
  • President

• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • She
  • Mom

• The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • War
  • Civil War

• We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • U.S.
  • Comprehend
  • We Cannot

• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Action

• To get scared is something not in my personality.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Personality
  • Get
  • Scared

• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • First

• It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Life
  • Death
  • Child

• One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Political
  • Me
  • Government

• Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Which
  • Circus
  • Clowns

• As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • People
  • Long
  • Hope

• We became the songs we wrote.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Wrote
  • Became

• If I were told that I have died or that I haven't been born, I wouldn't stop thinking about it.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Life
  • Important
  • She

• I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Experience

• Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there for a week.

  

  Leon Russell

• Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Energy
  • Wisdom
  • Imagination

• Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Want
  • Goals
  • Go

• There's nothing more frightening - and exciting - than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and you've got to go through the dark to get to the light. That's what the forest is all about.

  

  David Farr
  • Light
  • Lost
  • Dark

• There's a bit of me that always feels like, 'What's next? How can I get better?'

  

  John David Washington