Mekhi Phifer Quotes

In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap videos at the time.

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• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

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• I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

  

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• The first president I met was L. B. J.

  

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• I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

  

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• And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

  

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• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

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• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

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• My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

  

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• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

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• I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.

  

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• It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.

  

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• I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.

  

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• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

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• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

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• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

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• Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

  

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• Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

  

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• Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

  

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• 'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they thought to be stereotypical. However, what I would say is that the writer went and lived in Hackney in East London for a long time and did his research really well.

  

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• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  

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• You have a soft spot in your heart for each movie, and you're doing certain things. You're learning as you're going, as a director, and each movie is its own entity.

  

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• You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.

  

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• In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap videos at the time.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
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