Mahershala Ali Quotes
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
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For most developers, that kind of situation – a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend – to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
