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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If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.
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I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.
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In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
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I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
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I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
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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.
