John David Washington Quotes

If I can inspire one person to actually administer change, to want to inspire change, I will follow that person.

John David Washington

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• I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

  

  Gary Player
  • Human
  • More
  • Lived

• For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Made
  • Just

• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Easy

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fear

• It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Live
  • Want
  • Know

• Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Work
  • Why
  • High

• I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Success
  • Miserable

• I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Down

• Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Believe
  • Car

• If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

  

  Jane Rule
  • People
  • Gay

• The Democratic plan in the 'Affordable Care Act' has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • People
  • Trying
  • Support

• The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Work

• I thank God every night for David Stern.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • God
  • Night

• I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in.

  

  Kyle Abraham
  • Good
  • Why
  • College

• Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Food
  • Paris

• The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.

  

  Bill Cunningham The Box Tops
  • Fashion
  • Photography

• ... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Pain

• In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Function
  • Punish
  • Educating

• If I can inspire one person to actually administer change, to want to inspire change, I will follow that person.

  

  John David Washington