Mahershala Ali Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.
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I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
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I just remember celebrating my 18th birthday at home, so that was a big party.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
