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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When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.
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Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.
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There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.
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In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.
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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
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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.
