Wanda Sykes Quotes
Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?
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I love the character I played in 'Criminal Minds.'
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
