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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I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up longer, but over 15 years, it's become a habit. In my circle, I think a lot of musicians operate like this. When the place is quiet, you're more creative. I have plenty of people I can call at 4 A.M. and know they'll be up.
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Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.
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'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.
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I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.
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I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.
