Mekhi Phifer Quotes

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

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• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Goal

• My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Life
  • Work
  • She

• Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Now
  • Jazz

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Weak
  • Once
  • Weary

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Grow
  • Older

• 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.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Great
  • Today
  • Energy

• 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.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Government
  • Wood
  • Sheep

• 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?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

  

  Barry McGee
  • World
  • Art
  • I Can

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Politics
  • Modern
  • Fairness

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Focus

• It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • Country
  • True

• Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Job
  • Fighting

• 'Instagram' can engage generations of people that may not be on Facebook yet. I think that's true with 'WhatsApp,' and I think that will be true with things like Oculus.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • People
  • May
  • True

• What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

  

  Dale Dougherty
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Computers

• I graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I go to college, so I graduated, made the dean's list and everything.

  

  Joe Piscopo
  • Father
  • College
  • Baby

• I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Yourself
  • Shoes

• I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Life
  • Real
  • True