Wendell Pierce Quotes
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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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.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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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.
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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.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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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.
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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.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
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That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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I trained for four years in Toronto, and even before that, I was back and forth between Canada and the States during summer for training. And, since there isn't much difference between Canada and the States, I haven't felt much difference in the environment.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
