Wendell Pierce Quotes
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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'I’ll drive. You navigate.' He grinned. 'I judge people by how well they read maps.'
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The premium valuation is warranted in our view given the consistently high level of execution, the expansion into other revenue-driving channels such as entertainment and food ... and the improvement in both U.S. and international profitability.
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I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor.
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There’s something to be said for doing one thing right.
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When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
