Mekhi Phifer Quotes

I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.

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• Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Man
  • Courage

• If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Political

• After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Political
  • Better
  • Media

• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Live
  • Blessing
  • Holy

• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Me
  • Best
  • Speak

• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Devil
  • Angel

• It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • Pen

• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Jump

• Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Think
  • I Think

• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • More
  • Now
  • Almost

• I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Night
  • Need
  • Snogging

• I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Fun
  • You
  • Know

• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Speak

• The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Happy
  • End

• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Trash

• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men say that God punishes for complaining. No, but men are angry with misery. They are irritated with women for not being happy. They take it as a personal offence. To God alone may women complain without insulting Him!

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics

• Apparently, the Fates were not so unsubtle as to deal him another blow just yet. He knew they didn’t operate that way. They always let you hope for a while longer, then strung it out before they really let you have it.

  

  David Brin
  • Hope
  • Blow

• If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

  

  Ben Elliot
  • Done
  • Truth

• I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
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