Mekhi Phifer Quotes
When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
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Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.
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I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.
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I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.
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Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.
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I occasionally rapped along to some homegrown Korean rap. And then a friend introduced me to Wu-Tang and played me 'Enter the 36th Chambers.' It was very shocking. And then I started to look for different albums. This was pre-Internet, so it's hard to find the music, and it was even harder to find music videos.
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When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.
