John David Washington Quotes
I have to keep making films, getting better in my craft, and the way to do that is to work with people who know what they're doing and who can help me.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.
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There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.
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We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn't where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, 'Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?' And we actually agreed with that.
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I'm so afraid of confrontation.
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I have to keep making films, getting better in my craft, and the way to do that is to work with people who know what they're doing and who can help me.
