Mekhi Phifer Quotes
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
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When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.
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One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.
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I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.
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As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.
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Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do.
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Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.
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I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
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The soul has no assignments, neither cooks Nor referees: it wastes its time. It wastes its time.Here in this enclave there are centuries For you to waste: the short and narrow stream Of life meanders into a thousand valleys Of all that was, or might have been, or is to be. The books, just leafed through, whisper endlessly.
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Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.
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There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.
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I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.
