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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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
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I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.
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Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
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How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.
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For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
