Michael Jai White Quotes
The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.
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I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!
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I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.
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No one I knew in Sydney was thinking about how they might come to America and become a movie star. That would be considered delusions of grandeur. My parents were supportive, though. They just told me to keep at it as long as I was having fun.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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Hindsight is always 20/20, but I imagine a lot of married and divorced people have insights to share about how they felt during their engagement.
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What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
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The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.
