Michael B. Jordan Quotes
Now I like to think that I'm in my character's head so much that I don't have to substitute. I'm in the moment; I'm living in the moment. And if it's genuine, it's real, and if it comes out it comes out.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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I'm not very good at strategizing.
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Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.
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I've never had the patience of a teacher.
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I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.
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What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.
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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
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You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.
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Watching something is nothing like doing it.
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The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
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As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.
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Now I like to think that I'm in my character's head so much that I don't have to substitute. I'm in the moment; I'm living in the moment. And if it's genuine, it's real, and if it comes out it comes out.
