John David Washington Quotes

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

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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

• As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.

  

  Nadia Bolz-Weber
  • People
  • World
  • Friends

• The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Culture

• When a Mormon knocks, they say, 'Can I teach you about Jesus Christ?' And if you say no, they'll say, 'Then how can I be of service to you?' So anybody who was smart would be like, 'You can take out my trash and mow my lawn.'

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Teach
  • Jesus Christ
  • Knocks

• The female woman is one of the greatest institooshuns of which this land can boste.

  

  Charles Farrar Browne

• Just watching him out there tonight was something special.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Special
  • Watching

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

  

  John David Washington