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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I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.
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I wish people were realer in talking about how leaps of faith don't have to be taken without at least looking down first.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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Because men complained less, we made the false assumption that the complaints women experienced were only women’s complaints and, therefore, only women’s problems. Which created the rationale for women’s problems to be solved – or at least addressed – by public policy.
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My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
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It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like.
