Wanda Sykes Quotes
My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
Quotes to Explore
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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I really hate to write.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
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Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.
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Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
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You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.
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I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!
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And it gives me positive personal pain to see heirs of the eternal kingdom, made such by the ignominious death of their Lord, go shrinking and weeping to the full possession of their inheritance.
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My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
