Mahershala Ali Quotes
There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities.
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Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
