Wanda Sykes Quotes
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Kobe Bryant has always been my favorite player, and he was drafted No. 13, too, in 1996.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
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I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
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We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
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Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.
