Mahershala Ali Quotes
I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.
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But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
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In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
