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 wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
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People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.
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I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.
