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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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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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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.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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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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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
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I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.
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Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
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Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.
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We won’t be moving people, we will be moving the borders. It’s not a transfer.
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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.
