John David Washington Quotes
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.
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I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.
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When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.
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When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
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I went to a historically black college.
