Mekhi Phifer Quotes
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.
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The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.
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I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
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I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.
