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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My biggest tunes - 'Eres Mia,' 'Llevame Contigo,' 'Propuesta Indecente' - they aren't featuring anyone but me.
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I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.
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Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.
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He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.
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Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
