Wale Quotes
The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.
Quotes to Explore
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Once you're dead, your worries are over.
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We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
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I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
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Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
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The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.
