John David Washington Quotes
I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I'm a composer, man.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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You can be sexy and feel good in your skin, no matter what size you are.
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I'm a huge believer in you don't really need anybody to make you feel validated or make you feel secure. When you go to sleep at night, you're with yourself, and when you wake up, you're with yourself. Be happy, just alone, regardless if you're with somebody or not.
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I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine
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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.
