John David Washington Quotes
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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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 was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache.
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I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.
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I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.
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Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
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It's a beautiful thing when you serve the team.
