Mahershala Ali Quotes
I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
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Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
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I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.
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The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
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I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
