Mekhi Phifer Quotes
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I was an expert horseman.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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The crux of the matter was... the partnership between Richemont and myself was going sour for personal reasons, and you know, you can't have two people arguing all the time, so it was either my buying him out or him buying me out.
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Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.
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Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.
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It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like.
