Isaiah Mustafa (Isaiah Amir Mustafa) Quotes
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.
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Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.
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There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
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If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?
