I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.


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DENZEL WASHINGTON
The poorest people are the sweetest people.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into t...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
In any profession it gets to be a grind.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened ...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical backgro...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frigh...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supp...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...
WASHINGTON IRVING
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get...
DENZEL WASHINGTON
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away a...
WASHINGTON IRVING
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason...
GEORGE WASHINGTON