John David Washington Quotes
There's a bit of me that always feels like, 'What's next? How can I get better?'
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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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.
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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.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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.
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
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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.
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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.
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Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
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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.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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If I were told that I have died or that I haven't been born, I wouldn't stop thinking about it.
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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.
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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.
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I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.
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We can be very relaxed in our relationship with the Danish people...I feel extraordinarily privileged.
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There's a bit of me that always feels like, 'What's next? How can I get better?'
