Wanda Sykes Quotes
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
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Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
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I really actually enjoy auditioning.
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I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.
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People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
