John David Washington Quotes
There's some men and women out there that are doing their job the right way. They're protecting and serving complete strangers in their communities the right way. And it's a thankless job. Obviously, there's a lot of information out on cops not doing their jobs correctly, but the ones that are should be celebrated.
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
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'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
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Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
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I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
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There's some men and women out there that are doing their job the right way. They're protecting and serving complete strangers in their communities the right way. And it's a thankless job. Obviously, there's a lot of information out on cops not doing their jobs correctly, but the ones that are should be celebrated.
