John David Washington Quotes
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
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Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
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Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.
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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
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I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
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I remember when I was first time in Serie A, we were down the bottom, no one was speaking about Cagliari. And we were safe, one day before the final match. With Parma, we went down, but we were positive right to the end. There are the little details, but you have to continue.
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
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It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
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I've gotten rejected hundreds of times.
