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Of course, you always want to be No. 1. We had to scratch and claw our way back, and anything was possible.


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DENZEL WASHINGTON It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home...
DENZEL WASHINGTON The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, i...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my...
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...
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