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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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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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
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It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
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I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.
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I went to a historically black college.
