Wale Quotes
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.
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The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.
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There's something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It's like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.
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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
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No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
