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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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.
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With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
