Mahershala Ali Quotes
I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.
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Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
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Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.
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We should be with people who are in need.
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I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'
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I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.
