Mahershala Ali Quotes
I think #OscarsSoWhite is about there not truly being enough people of color represented.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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I think #OscarsSoWhite is about there not truly being enough people of color represented.
