Mahershala Ali Quotes
I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
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I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
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My mom gave me enough self-worth to carry me through difficult experiences. She was very loving and accepting. She was like, 'Whelp, you're gay? OK, cool.'
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I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
