Isaiah Washington Quotes
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days that I have I like to let my skin breathe, but of course I'm girly so I like to put on some blush and some mascara.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.
