Wendell Pierce Quotes

I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.

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• Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Together
  • Control
  • Digital

• We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Basketball
  • Watch
  • Australia

• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Movies

• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Angry

• I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Past
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• A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Writing
  • Girl
  • You

• The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • War
  • Free
  • Government

• When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Born
  • Being
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• I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • High
  • College

• The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Job
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• Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
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  • Minute

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Man
  • Being
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• I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Television

• This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Live
  • Wonder
  • Dreams

• I don't play any instruments. I don't produce. I don't know which keys or chords I am using, so, in essence, I need the band and the production team - otherwise, I am just some guy with a hat and a song.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
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  • Song
  • Team

• As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

  

  Alphonso Jackson
  • Country
  • Home

• Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Words
  • Change

• There is no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about my country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Life
  • Country
  • Question

• I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.

  

  Wendell Pierce
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