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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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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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 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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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 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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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
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Fashion should be playful.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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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.
