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Wendell Pierce Quotes

My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1962

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Best Past Racism Me Succeed Defeat

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

Guitar Band Bass Bass Player Player

I don't like going out on a date unless I know the broad a little bit beforehand. By the way, 'broad' to me is not a detrimental term for women; it's simply another word for female. Anyway, I don't really go out a whole lot, because there aren't many girls I like to take out and spend a whole evening with - at least not an evening in public.

Women Dating Me Evening Go Know

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

Job Me Problems Try Listen Out

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!

Food Eating Diet Healthy Group Old

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

John Frankenheimer

Work Best Job Creative People Feel

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

Truth World More Need Nation

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

Music Musicians You Never First

I was born in New Hampshire, moved to Tennessee when I was 9, and lived there through high school, then went to school at College of Charleston, so definitely a lot of pieces of the South there.

School College High School Born New

Remember: you cannot build a better mouse trap by fixing the old one - NewCo demands active ownership, and that activity is not the sum of doing multiple jobs but, instead, the sum of implementing paradigm-shifting changes that create new industries and solutions.

Better Doing Remember Ownership You

Kids come up to us all the time and say, 'Hey, I'm not a Christian, but what you guys are doing is cool.' Or they say, 'Man, there's something different going on when you guys play.' I believe that's the Spirit of God touching who God intends to touch, whether it's just one person or 50,000 people.

God Time Man People Cool Believe

Frequently I get asked if I'd rather have spent my career in a big city like New York or Los Angeles, where the exposure would be greater than in Seattle. My answer is no, not at all. Exposure is not important to me.

New York City Me Career New Seattle

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Politics Man Feel Gay Determined

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