John David Washington Quotes
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
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The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
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Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
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My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.
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The success of the long-established relationship between the liberal/socialist/progressives and the Black Talented Tenth has been due to their commonality in commitment to an ideology and self-aggrandizement above all else.
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My father taught me how to hunt.
