#thin

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#end #hunger #life #motto #my motto

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#belong #cards #drew #fame #feel

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#common thing #common way #excellence #thing #uncommon

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#anything #body #commitment #completely #cut

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#am #best #cup #effort #goes

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#around #did #good #how #i

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#acting #being #celebrity #favorite #know

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#african-american women #american women #bottom #colour #get

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#factory #garbage #guy #i #just

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. ↗

— George Washington

#army #discipline #gives #hurtful #more