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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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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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
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Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.
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The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.
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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
