Michael Jai White Quotes
There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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Family - it's all about family. Families feeling safe and finding your safe place.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.
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I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.
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There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.
