Mekhi Phifer Quotes

I want to see my family prosper, see my kids grow old.

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• Islam means peace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Peace
  • Means
  • Islam

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Why

• We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • Blessing
  • Curse

• Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Purpose
  • Vote
  • Voting

• I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

  

  Yuna
  • Me
  • Criticism
  • Down

• Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Will

• I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

  

  Rand Paul
  • House
  • You
  • Immigration

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Me
  • Fighting
  • Never

• I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Meet
  • Hug

• I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • Never
  • New York

• The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.

  

  Ram Charan
  • School
  • Always
  • Principal

• Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Mind
  • Living

• If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Sky
  • Create
  • Walk

• Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Bad
  • Together
  • Band

• But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fall

• I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

  

  Matt Kemp
  • Important
  • Kids
  • American

• The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

  

  Trevor George Smith Jr.

• I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.

  

  Marc Platt
  • People
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I want to see my family prosper, see my kids grow old.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Family
  • Kids