Michael Jai White Quotes
There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Europe can be saved.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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It's good to talk, but their position has to change ... they know how to change, they know what they have to change.
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
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There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.