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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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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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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I'm a bit of a tomboy.
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The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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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.
