Mahershala Ali Quotes
At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.
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The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
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At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.
