Mekhi Phifer Quotes
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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I loved Heidi Klum, but now I know Kathy Ireland is on the cover of Forbes, so that’s pretty amazing as well.
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Thy duty do? rejoined the voice,Ah, do it, do it, and rejoice;But shalt thou then, when all is done,Enjoy a love, embrace a beautyLike these, that may be seen and wonIn life, whose course will then be run;Or wilt thou be where there is none?I know not, I will do my duty.
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You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.
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The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
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As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.
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Eating right has made the biggest difference in my body.
