Mahershala Ali Quotes
I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.Mahershala Ali
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Camille Paglia -
I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
Tawni O'Dell -
I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
Larry Holmes -
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Practices were tough.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
Nat Friedman -
New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
Zig Ziglar -
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla -
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama -
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
Dan Castellaneta -
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
Valerie Plame -
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
Watt Key -
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
J. Michael Straczynski
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
Ingrid Newkirk -
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.
Mary Pipher -
Golf would be my ticket somewhere, I told myself. I just couldn't say where it would lead me.
Arnold Palmer -
If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.
Charlie Munger -
I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.
Mahershala Ali