Mahershala Ali Quotes
The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me.
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I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.
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Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.
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People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.
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I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
