Wanda Sykes Quotes
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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I want every Grammy.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
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My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
