Century Quote by Denzel Washington

“Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.”

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I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

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My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always…

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Family is life; acting is making a living.

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Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

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I'll be working with Ridley's [Scott] brother, Tony, again, someone who needless to say we've had a great amount of success together. I trust…

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I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

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I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

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I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not…

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We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

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It's strictly business. If I loan you $25 million, I want my money back. I don't want to hear about the social impact. That's…

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If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

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“He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family" (73). - Bill Clinton, "Paying Attention”

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I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

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[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking…

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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

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Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds…

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The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been…

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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

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At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is…

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While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…

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