Wendell Pierce Quotes
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
Sam Graves -
There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
Rajiv Ouseph -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
Taylor Swift -
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
Parker Harris
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
Natalie du Toit -
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
Zaha Hadid -
I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
Zachary Levi -
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
Natalie du Toit -
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
Barbara Boxer -
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
Adam McKay
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
Gamaliel Bailey -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
Garth Brooks -
We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
Dakota Fanning -
In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
Fiona Apple -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman
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In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.
Laini Taylor -
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!
David Eagleman -
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
Bella Abzug -
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce