John David Washington Quotes
I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.

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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
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I always fall for the guy that, like, has to blow me off because he needs to go do something with his dog. I love those kind of guys.
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I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.