Mahershala Ali Quotes
The work that I do with all of my characters is have some sense of where they come from. I kind of create my own story for myself. What's going on with my parents? Are they alive? Or family - do I have children? Do you see those things or not?
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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In Malta, it's so hot, you wouldn't believe.
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It shows there is serious intent on the part of energy companies like SSE to try to get not only the newer technologies like wind well established but also the very new technologies out of the laboratory and on the ground, generating power.
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Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.
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I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
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I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.
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The work that I do with all of my characters is have some sense of where they come from. I kind of create my own story for myself. What's going on with my parents? Are they alive? Or family - do I have children? Do you see those things or not?
