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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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs.
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I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met.
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There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming.
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I think #OscarsSoWhite is about there not truly being enough people of color represented.
