Michael Jai White Quotes

I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.

Michael Jai White

• Remember
• Way
• Negative
• Missed
• Filter
• Positives
• Uplifted

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

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• We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

  

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• I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.

  

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• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

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• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

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• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  

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• Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

  

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• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

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• Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

  

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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

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• I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

  

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• I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'

  

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• Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

  

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  • God
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• Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

  

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• Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

  

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• I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

  

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• You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

  

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• A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

  

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• My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

  

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• When I speak, my Urdu isn’t very good but when I sing I make sure there are no flaws in my diction.

  

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• When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

  

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• I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.

  

  Michael Jai White
  • Remember
  • Way
  • Negative