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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Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
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I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn't afford to go anymore. That was the theme going on in my whole life, you know: money stopping me from whatever I wanted to do.
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It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
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Eating right has made the biggest difference in my body.
