John David Washington Quotes
The nature of a football team means you're relying on 10 other guys. Even then, that doesn't guarantee a win.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.
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You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
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To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.
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When you learn how to play an instrument, you spend a lot of your time practicing, which keeps you occupied. Music passes your time. As you're going through life, it's something to enjoy. If you can be a part of it, that's even better.
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The nature of a football team means you're relying on 10 other guys. Even then, that doesn't guarantee a win.
