Mahershala Ali Quotes
There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
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Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.
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There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.
