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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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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'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.
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I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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I just roll with the punches.
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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.
