Mekhi Phifer Quotes

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

Mekhi Phifer

• Good
• Money

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Life
  • Korea
  • North Korea

• We must strive to become good ancestors.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Strive
  • Ancestors

• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Worry

• I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Me

• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Mankind
  • Lead
  • Microsoft

• I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Think
  • Support
  • Examination

• It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Obsession

• I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Small
  • Camera
  • Small Things

• A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Business
  • She
  • Night

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painting

• Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • World
  • Picture
  • Physics

• 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Old

• I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Gangster

• Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Humor
  • Take
  • Sense Of Humor

• I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.

  

  Jeff Buckley

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• I have a very nice voice.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Nice

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of just where stories happen, not the stories themselves.

  

  Jens Lekman

• When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Good
  • Money