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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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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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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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 think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
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Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh at us for. But, the beauty of music is - well, a couple things. There are no side effects that are harmful. Music doesn't do that. It doesn't have any negative effects whatsoever. So I do think it's going to come, but I think it's a new idea for people.
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Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
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It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
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I saw singer Pink doing aerial flips during one of her performances at Grammy Awards. It got me inspired, and I started doing it, too. It has made me very flexible. I couldn't even touch my toes a few years ago, but now I find myself to be extremely fit.
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I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool.
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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.
