Michael Jai White Quotes
I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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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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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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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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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
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But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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I want to be up front racing.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
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It wasn't until I booked the role of Cyborg that I was sent literally everything Cyborg-related from DC comics.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.
