John David Washington Quotes
Being able to tell people's stories - this is the most exciting job in the world to me.
John David Washington
Quotes to Explore
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I like to prove people wrong.
Zach LaVine
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
Wendy Kopp
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
Jackie Robinson
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
Nancy Gibbs
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
Ira Glass
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
Quavo
Migos
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
Hannah Simone
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
Fernando Botero
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
P. Chidambaram
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I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
Carl Hagelin
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
A. S. Byatt
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I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.
Bill Atkinson
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As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.
Fred Rogers
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Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
Dan Brown
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My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.
Gabrielle Union
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Being able to tell people's stories - this is the most exciting job in the world to me.
John David Washington
